Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán
Synopsis:
A lonely businessman makes two errors of judgement the day he meets the woman of his life, one involving buying enormous quantities of dessert in order to secure squillions of air miles, the other dialling a phone sex line for conversation.
Review:
An extraordinary curate's egg of a picture, partly trading on Sandler's comic persona, partly casting him against type. It doesn't succeed entirely on laughs, as one might expect from the director's other work, nor does it quite have the dramatic resonance one has come to expect. It's just a pixillated entertainment for those with the temperament for that sort of thing.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán
Synopsis:
A lonely businessman makes two errors of judgement the day he meets the woman of his life, one involving buying enormous quantities of dessert in order to secure squillions of air miles, the other dialling a phone sex line for conversation.
Review:
An extraordinary curate's egg of a picture, partly trading on Sandler's comic persona, partly casting him against type. It doesn't succeed entirely on laughs, as one might expect from the director's other work, nor does it quite have the dramatic resonance one has come to expect. It's just a pixillated entertainment for those with the temperament for that sort of thing.
Country: US
Technical: col 95m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán
Synopsis:
A lonely businessman makes two errors of judgement the day he meets the woman of his life, one involving buying enormous quantities of dessert in order to secure squillions of air miles, the other dialling a phone sex line for conversation.
Review:
An extraordinary curate's egg of a picture, partly trading on Sandler's comic persona, partly casting him against type. It doesn't succeed entirely on laughs, as one might expect from the director's other work, nor does it quite have the dramatic resonance one has come to expect. It's just a pixillated entertainment for those with the temperament for that sort of thing.