Punch-Drunk Love - English subtitled
Adam Sandler surprised friend and foe alike with his understated lead role in this unconventional romantic tragicomedy by Paul Thomas Anderson, about an emotionally unstable man who finds love amid extortion and aggression.
Sandler plays Barry Egan, a lonely, emotionally repressed man whose life is disrupted – and illuminated – by unexpected love and a phone-sex scam gone awry. Paul Thomas Anderson crafts a story that’s both tender and volatile, surreal yet emotionally grounded.
A departure from Anderson’s earlier ensemble dramas (Magnolia, Boogie Nights), Punch-Drunk Love is a compact, deeply personal work that reveals the beauty of imperfection and the redemptive power of love. It remains one of the most distinctive American films of the 2000s – eccentric, affecting, and utterly original.