PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Plot: Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flier-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Fueled by the careening momentum of a baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance.;
• Cast: Adam Sandler, Jason Andrews, Don Mcmanus, Emily Watson, Luis Guzmán, David Schrempf, Seann Conway, Rico Bueno, Hazel Mailloux, Karen Kilgariff, Julie Hermelin, Salvador Curiel, Jorge Barahona, Ernesto Quintero, Julius Steuer, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Lisa Spector, Nicole Gelbard, Mia Weinberg, Karen Hermelin, Larry Ring, Kerry Gelbard, Robert Smigel, Ashley Clark, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Parry, John E. Beck, Eddie Wayne Howell, Taylor J. Thomas, Bobby Bluehouse, David H. Stevens, Nathan Stevens, Jimmy Stevens, Carol Mirelez, June Sepulveda, Andrew Higgs, Rogerlyn Kanealii Wakinekona, Mike D. Stevens, Catherine Cooley, Michael Immel, Ross Lasi Tanoai, Jonathan Loughran, Kaila, Ku'Ulei, Sissy Lake, Marie Irwin, Esther Imade Balogun, Thomas Bornt, Mary Kilmartin, Ryder Davis, Sam Polson, Wells Rosales, Shelley Waggener, Celeste Wilson, Joji Yoshida, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joanne Sellar, Daniel Lupi, Robert Elswit, Jon Brion
• Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Revolution Studios Distribution Company, LLC, New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie