Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 rom-com starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sandler stars as Barry Egan, the only boy in a group of eight siblings who his sisters always pick on. Despite being successful in life, Barry is lonely and decides to call a phone-sex hotline. But that makes things complicated with his sister's friend Lena who he thinks has a crush on him.
Punch-Drunk Love
- Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Release Date
- November 1, 2002
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures , Columbia Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Columbia Pictures , New Line Cinema , Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast
- Robert Smigel , Mary Lynn Rajskub , Emily Watson , Adam Sandler , Luis Guzman , Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Writers
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Runtime
- 95 minutes
- Budget
- $25 million
Summary
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.
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