Punch-Drunk Love Rating:  Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
UK Certificate: 18
As the belittled and undermined baby brother of a gaggle of female siblings, Adam Sandler, giving a career re-defining I-can-act-as-well-as-shout performance, is Barry, a lonely toilet-brush wholesaler with anger management issues (he punches walls and smashes things).
Desperate for female contact he phones a sex-chat line 'just to talk'. Having given up his life-story - and his credit card details - poor old Barry finds himself being blackmailed by a big, bad bed salesman (Seymour Hoffman) and his white-trash rent-a-thugs, just when he finds Lena (Watson), the girl of his dreams. He gets angry.
Off-beat and weirdly romantic, Punch-Drunk Love crams a whirlwind of emotion into 90 minutes: anger, sadness, pain, fear, euphoria, desperation. Frightening and warm, it will break your heart then put it back together, making it stronger than ever.
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