  Punch-Drunk Love Movie Review    • Holly McClure Movie
Reviewer   • 2002 23 Oct <i>Punch-Drunk Love</i> Movie Review
Genre:  Comedy/Romance  Rating:  R  Release Date:  October 18,
2002   Director:  Paul Thomas Anderson  Special Notes:  Emily
Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman are also starring together in
Red Dragon.  But in each film, the stars have no scenes
together.  Plot:  Barry Egan (Sandler) is a lonely man who runs
a small business making toilet plungers.  His insecurities and
self-esteem issues have been created by constant badgering from
his seven judgmental and critical sisters.  When one of Barry's
sisters introduces him to Lena (Watson), a friend from work, a
romantic journey begins that test his love and temperament. 
Philip Seymour Hoffman also stars.  Good:  I enjoy Adam Sandler,
especially when he's trying to play a more serious character. 
He can be sane one minute and off the wall the next.  In this
movie writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson tries to make him do
just that--carry on normal