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Punch-Drunk Love
Directed by
Paul Thomas Anderson
R
2002
1h 36m
Comedy
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Drama
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and more
7.3
79%
77%
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Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.
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Cast of Punch-Drunk Love
Adam Sandler
Barry Egan
Emily Watson
Lena Leonard
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Dean Trumbell
Luis Guzmán
Lance
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Elizabeth Egan
Robert Smigel
Walter the Dentist
Jason Andrews
Operator Carter (voice)
Don McManus
Plastic (voice)
David Schrempf
Customer #1
Seann Conway
Customer #2
Rico Bueno
Rico
Hazel Mailloux
Rhonda
Karen Kilgariff
Anna (voice)
Julie Hermelin
Kathleen
Salvador Curiel
Sal
Jorge Barahona
Jorge
Ernesto Quintero
Ernesto
Julius Steuer
Mechanic
Lisa Spector
Susan
Nicole Gelbard
Nicole
Mia Weinberg
Gilda
Karen Hermelin
Anna
Larry Ring
Steve - Brother-in-Law
Kerry Gelbard
Richard - Brother-in-Law
Ashley Clark
Phone Sex Sister
Alan Parry
Member of After Eden Band
John E. Beck
Member of After Eden Band
Eddie Wayne Howell
Member of After Eden Band
Taylor J. Thomas
Member of After Eden Band
Bobby Bluehouse
After Eden Sound Man
David H. Stevens
David
Nathan Stevens
Nate
Jimmy Stevens
Jim
Carol Mirelez
Phone Sex Girl #1 - Utah
June Sepulveda
Phone Sex Girl #2 - Utah
Andrew Higgs
Restaurant Manager
Rogerlyn Kanealii Wakinekona
Lena's Apartment Receptionist
Mike D. Stevens
Mike D.
Catherine Cooley
Flight Attendant
Michael Immel
Man on Plane
Ross Lasi Tanoai
Cab Driver
Jonathan Loughran
Wrong Number (voice)
Kaila
Member of Ladies K Band
Ku'Ulei
Member of Ladies K Band
Sissy Lake
Hula Dancer
Marie Irwin
Lena's Nurse
Esther Imade Balogun
Receptionist Nurse
Thomas Bornt
Dean's Employee
Mary Kilmartin
D&D Mattress Customer
Anica Brown
Parader (uncredited)
Ryder Davis
Customer (uncredited)
Wells Rosales
Leo (uncredited)
Shelley Waggener
Co-Worker (uncredited)
Joji Yoshida
Japanese Tourist (uncredited)
Punch-Drunk Love Ratings & Reviews
Bill S.
February 1, 2025
💔📞🧴👊💙🌴✈️😊
Eric Bakke
January 18, 2025
A refreshingly unique take on the romance drama-comedy genre. It’s oddly moving, despite the quirky exterior.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
It is quite a vision.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Easily one of the best and most exciting movies of the year.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Despite its title, Punch-Drunk Love is never heavy-handed. The jabs it employs are short, carefully placed and dead-center.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
[Anderson] uses a hit-or-miss aesthetic that hits often enough to keep the film entertaining even if none of it makes a lick of sense.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Director Paul Thomas Anderson hasn't reinvented Sandler; he's just allowed those of us who tired very quickly of his innocent naif shtick to see how effectively it can be put in the service of something to care about.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
It's wacky. It's unpredictable. It's sure to give pause to Sandler fans and, smaller in number but every bit as dedicated, to Watson admirers too.
Denver Post
Steven Rosen
Everything about Punch-Drunk Love works in a Being John Malkovich sort of way save one. Sandler. When your star doesn't work, it's hard to get us to buy into the rest of a movie as unusual as this.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
A movie of undeniable power and strangeness.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Odd romantic journey for adults and older teens.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
A love-letter to the golden age of film, Anderson's opus is the equivalent of a jubilant Technicolor MGM romantic musical, except without the requisite singing and dancing and crossed with a stark cynicism that is Sandler's hallmark.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Audiences are likely to feel a bit punch drunk themselves as they try to make sense of this odd romantic journey with its offbeat dualities, combining extremes of chaos and harmony and love and anger.
Newsweek
David Ansen
It's a romantic comedy on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
In Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler doesn't so much discard his old persona as illuminate it, breathing life into the cardboard characters that populated his earlier films.
Observer
Rex Reed
How odd that a tribute to a wildly theatrical presence should turn out so dull and prosaic.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A weirdly sweet little love story set in waltz time and filmed as a study in contrast: light and dark, order and chaos, delicate music and ear-bending noise.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
It is already apparent that Punch-Drunk Love will not be everyone's cup of tea, but nonetheless Mr. Anderson has found a way to fashion a passionate romance out of the materials of postmodern chaos.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Sandler is excellent in the part, making Barry a wild-card cipher that sucks you in and makes you ache to see him win something -- anything -- from life.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A weird, arresting little ride.
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