Punch-Drunk Love

Punch-Drunk Love

Adam Sandler takes a shot at critical respectability with Punch-Drunk Love, a movie by director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia). Sandler plays Barry Egan, a lonely small businessman who calls a phone sex line one night, only to find himself the victim of an extortion scheme the next day--the very same day on which he goes out on a date with the woman who may be the love of his life (the utterly delightful Emily Watson). Barry is a lot like Sandler's popular comic characters--socially maladept, prone to violence, always on the brink of embarrassment--but here Sandler plays it real; the result is both off-putting and sympathetic. Anderson's writing skills, unfortunately, are not as strong as his visual sense. Punch-Drunk Love has many strengths (including great supporting actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzmán), but ultimately fizzles out. --Bret Fetzer

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews, Don McManus
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 14 wins & 35 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
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R (Restricted)
Year:
2002
95
$17,800,000
Website
3,739 Views

Barry:
I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.

Barry:
At that restaurant, I beat up the bathroom. I'm sorry.

Lena:
Oh... I'm sorry... was that like a secret pudding?

Barry:
Pudding...

Barry:
Ummm, let's just... keep it between you and I, if that's possible.

Lena:
Sure, Sure...

Barry:
Healthy Choice and American Airlines got together and put this promotion: If you buy any 10 Healthy Choice products, they will reward you with 500 frequent flier miles; with this special coupon, they'll up it to 1,000 miles. So, I think they are trying to push their teriyaki chicken which is $1.79, but I went to the supermarket and I looked around and I saw that they had pudding... for 25¢ a cup... comes in packages of four. But insanely... the barcodes... are on the individual cups! So, quarter a cup, say you bought $2.50 worth. That's worth 500... with the coupon it's 1,000 miles. It's a marketing mistake but I'm taking advantage of it. If you were to spend $3,000, that would get you a million frequent flier miles. You would never have to pay for a ticket the rest of your life.

Lena:
You... you bought all that pudding so that you could get frequent flier miles?

Barry:
I would say that's that, mattress man.

Barry:
I know... yes...

Lena:
That's insane.

Barry:
I'm guessing it was a mistake... but... I'm taking advantage of it while it's offered. Who knows how long it'll last...

Barry:
too many people start doing it...

Barry:
I'm lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it. I just wanna f***in' smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it. You're so pretty.

Lena:
I want to chew your face, and I want to scoop out your eyes and I want to eat them and chew them and suck on them.

Barry:
OK. This is funny. This is nice.

Barry:
Teryaki chicken. Tery... aki chicken. Soup? Soup... soup... Chicken noodle...? Cookies. Pudding. PUDDING!

Barry:
This really looks like Hawaii.

Dean Trumbell:
Shut up! SHUT THE F*** UP! Shut up! Shut, shut, shut, shut, SHUT UP! Are you threatening me?

Barry:
Umm... yeah.

Dean Trumbell:
That wasn't good. You're dead.

Barry:
Well bye-bye, then... you stupid mother f***er...

Barry:
I didn't ask for a shrink - that must've been somebody else. Also, that pudding isn't mine. Also, I'm wearing this suit today because I had a very important meeting this morning and I don't have a crying problem.

Barry:
Is this confidential?

Barry:
I don't know if there is anything wrong because I don't know how other people are.

Barry:
You can go to places in the world with pudding. That's funny.

Barry:
I wanted to ask you something because you're a doctor... I don't like myself sometimes. Can you help me?

Walter:
Barry, I'm a dentist. What kind of help do you think I could give you?

Lena:
People are just crazy in this world, I think.

Lance:
The chair broke!

Anna:
You strokin' yet?

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1 Comment
  • Allen Richards
    Allen Richards
    I've seen this movie several times. Phillip Seymour Hoffman has his toughest badass role he's ever had, and you can see, in spite of Sandler's anger issues in the movie, that he's still no match for Hoffman. Hoffman plays a very powerful role as a major pimp/crime boss who employs prostitutes, phone sex women, and other black market collaborators in his shady underworld syndicate, and gangster henchmen who he sends after Sandler after he talks back to him (even though Hoffman got in alot more threats and vulgar ranting than Sandler). But, Sandler was just a mouthy punk who was on his own. Well, Sandler talking back to him and him trying to weasel out of a debt from his phone sex calls with one of his women (and mouthing off to her) was why Hoffman sent his boys after him. Sandler found his phone debt unfair, but he wasn't able to realize that who he was dealing with was not exactly part of a world of being fair and living by the rules. Anyone who knew Hoffman or who worked for him knew how he was seriously someone not to f*** with. 
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