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Punch-Drunk Love
Adam Sandler is a beleaguered businessman who finds romance with a mysterious woman, in Paul Thomas Anderson’s award-winning offbeat comedy.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Overview
Barry Egan (Adam Sandler), an executive in a company that makes novelty toiletries, holds a dark streak of barely repressed anger and violence. Then he meets Lena Leonard (Emily Watson), a sweetly intense but mysterious woman who asks him to look after her broken-down car, and his romantic journey begins.
This critically acclaimed offbeat comedy won the Best Director honour at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for two-time Academy Award® Nominated writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights). Also starring, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzman.
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