Punch-Drunk Love

Theatrical Release Date: 2002 11 01 (USA) / 2002 10 11 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 043396027640

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity]

Summary: Adam Sandler and Emily Watson star in Punch-Drunk Love, an odd romantic comedy from gifted young director Paul Thomas Anderson. Sandler plays Barry Egan, a shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages, who falls in love with Lena Leonard (Emily Watson), a co-worker of one of Barry's seven sisters. After calling a phone-sex line, Barry is extorted by bad-guy Dean Trumbell (Anderson regular Philip Seymour Hoffman), who eventually sends four goons to assault Barry and get the money. This film was screened in competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, where Paul Thomas Anderson was named Best Director. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Category: Romance

Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Cinematography (Runner-up) – National Society of Film Critics Best Director – Cannes Film Festival Best Picture [Runner-up] – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Director – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Screenplay [Runner-up] – Toronto Film Critics Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: ccMastered in high definition
Subtitles: English, French
Audio: English 5.1-channel Dolby Digital Surround EX, English DTS, English (Dolby Surround), French (Dolby Surround)

Punch-Drunk Love

Format: DVD

Release Date: 12/02/2003

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD-EX Dolby Digital Surround EX (simulated 6.1), DTS Digital Theater Systems, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 95 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Harmonium Drop [3:07]
2. Lena Drops [4:18]
3. Punch-Drunk Melody [8:15]
4. Smell of Blood [4:45]
5. Pudding [1:38]
6. Phone Sex [7:15]
7. Good Morning [12:17]
8. Provo [1:33]
9. Date Scene [4:16]
10. Don't Say a Thing [1:20]
11. Wherever You're Going, Whatever You're Doing [3:17]
12. Alien Abduction [2:44]
13. More Pudding Plan [2:31]
14. He Needs Me [:17]
15. Waikiki (Ladies K) [3:04]
16. Moana Chimes [6:23]
17. Kahala [1:42]
18. The Art of Travel [2:15]
19. Soft Shoe at Hospital [2:38]
20. That's That [2:03]
21. Harmonium [4:50]
22. Here We Go [3:12]

Perry Seibert

While Punch-Drunk Love is aggressively idiosyncratic, it most certainly fits thematically with Paul Thomas Anderson's other works. Hard Eight is about a man creating a new family in order to overcome the guilt he feels for destroying his own; Boogie Nights is about creating a new family to escape the dysfunction of one's biological family; and Magnolia is about confronting and making peace with family members. Punch-Drunk is about a man so emotionally henpecked by his seven sisters that only the love of a woman can get him to break through the layers of defensiveness he has constructed around his inner self. Adam Sandler is superb as Barry Egan. Anderson has successfully integrated the violent subtext of Sandler's comedic persona and transformed that element of his personality from something that gets laughs into something that engenders sympathy and communicates deep psychological issues. Anderson's precise framings as well as his superb feel for sound and music are on display throughout the film. The style and substance of the film meld superbly throughout, but never more so than during the extended shot involving Barry talking to a phone sex operator. The single take communicates his lonesome existence by revealing the sparsely decorated rooms, while Sandler's performance in the scene expresses his desire to change as well as the difficulty he faces in his attempts to make those changes. The whole film is tight, controlled, and utterly charming. Disquietingly odd and richly emotional, Punch-Drunk Love continues to show why Paul Thomas Anderson may be the most interesting filmmaker of his generation. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Joanne Sellar  Producer 
Daniel Lupi  Producer 
Paul Thomas Anderson  Director 
Paul Thomas Anderson  Producer 
Paul Thomas Anderson  Screenwriter 
Jon Brion  Composer (Music Score) 
Adam Sandler  Actor 
Emily Watson  Actor 
Philip Seymour Hoffman  Actor 
Luis Guzman  Actor 
Mary Lynn Rajskub  Actor 

Country: USA