Robert Smigel as Walter, a dentist and Barry's brother-in-law.Mary Lynn Rajskub as Elizabeth Egan, Barry's overbearing sister.Philip Seymour Hoffman as Dean Trumbell, the owner of the mattress store.Emily Watson as Lena Leonard, Barry's love interest and Elizabeth's friend and coworker.Adam Sandler as Barry Egan, an unmarried entrepreneur with social anxiety.Lena confesses she was more upset at being left at the hospital, but forgives him and they embrace happily. He begs for forgiveness, pledging his loyalty and to use his frequent-flier miles to accompany her on all future business trips after his pudding miles are processed. They both agree "that's that".īarry returns home and goes to see Lena to explain why the accident happened. At first, trying to intimidate Barry, Dean finds him more intimidating once he learns that Barry has come all the way from California. Barry drives all the way to Provo, Utah, to confront the owner, Dean, face to face. He calls the phone-sex line back and finds out the "supervisor" is the owner of a mattress store. After fighting the brothers off with a tire iron, Barry leaves Lena at the hospital and sets out to end the harassment. On the return trip, the four brothers ram Barry's car, mildly injuring Lena. The romance develops further, leading to Barry's relief from his emotional isolation. As the two spend time together, Barry's sister calls Lena, complicating matters, but Lena lies about having contact with Barry. When Lena leaves for Hawaii on a business trip, Barry decides to follow her, using his sister to find Lena, who is overjoyed to see him. This complicates his budding relationship with Lena, as well as his plan to exploit a loophole in a Healthy Choice promotion and amass a million frequent-flyer miles by purchasing large quantities of pudding. The phone sex operator tries to extort money from him and then sends four henchmen, who are brothers, to collect. Instead, Barry calls a phone sex line to cope with his loneliness. Afterwards, he asks his brother-in-law to refer him to a therapist. Lena had orchestrated the meeting after seeing him in Elizabeth's family picture at work.īarry goes to his sister's birthday party, where they tease him about his sexuality, leading to a serious outburst in which he breaks all sliding glass doors. One day, he witnesses an inexplicable car accident, picks up an abandoned harmonium from the street, and meets Lena Leonard (a coworker of Elizabeth, one of his sisters). He has seven overbearing sisters who regularly ridicule and emotionally abuse him, so he leads a lonely life punctuated by fits of rage and social anxiety. Retrospectively, Punch-Drunk Love is viewed as a favorite film of several prominent film directors and actors, and was seen as a launchpad for Sandler to pursue dramatic or unconventional film roles outside of his usual mainstream comedies.īarry Egan is a bachelor who owns a company that markets themed toilet plungers and other novelty items. However, the film was a box office bomb, failing to recoup its $25 million production budget at the box office. The film received positive reviews from critics, with Sandler's performance receiving widespread acclaim. It features the video art of Jeremy Blake in the form of visual interludes. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and New Line Cinema, and distributed by Columbia Pictures.Īfter working on his third film Magnolia, Anderson planned to make his next film: a ninety-minute romantic comedy, with Sandler in mind as the lead due to Anderson's love for him and his films. It follows an entrepreneur with social anxiety who falls in love with his sister's co-worker. Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 American absurdist romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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