Punch-Drunk Love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Punch-Drunk Love |
| Original title | Punch-Drunk Love |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| script | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| production | Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi , Joanne Sellar |
| music | Jon Brion |
| camera | Robert Elswit |
| cut | Leslie Jones |
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Punch-Drunk Love is an American comedy film from 2002. It was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson , who also wrote the screenplay . The main roles were played by Adam Sandler and Emily Watson .
action
The young entrepreneur Barry Egan is disturbed by the frequent calls from his seven sisters. When he is invited to a family reunion with one of the sisters, he freaks out and smashes some of the patio panes. In the evening he wants to relax through phone sex . He gives his phone number and credit card number to an appropriate agency. Soon he will be called back by a woman. The next morning the woman calls again and demands additional money from Egan. When he refuses, she threatens to call his girlfriend. Your boss sends four brothers after him to beat the money out of him.
Egan discovers that buying a particular pudding will earn you a disproportionate amount of airline miles. So he buys entire pallets of this pudding for around $ 3,000 .
Egan meets Lena Leonard, an employee of one of his sisters. When Lena flies to Hawaii on business , Barry follows her and they spend the night together. After an accident caused by the gangsters, he leaves Lena's bedside and goes to Utah to confront the owner of the phone sex hotline. Then he returns and makes up with Lena.
Reviews
"Bittersweet love story that tells of the triumph of intimacy over the anonymity of modernity and appeals to you despite some staging deficiencies thanks to the enchanting play of the two main actors."
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was an unconventional romantic comedy. There are too few scenes with the "talented" Emily Watson.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of October 18, 2002 that the film could be understood as a critique of the other comedies starring Adam Sandler. He shows a destroyed man who suffers from the dominant demeanor of his sisters and who is not to be trifled with. Ebert asked if Sandler could make more such profound films in the future.
Awards
Adam Sandler was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2003 .
The film for Best Comedy , Adam Sandler and Philip Seymour Hoffman were nominated for the 2003 Golden Satellite Award . Adam Sandler and Emily Watson were nominated for the 2003 MTV Movie Award .
Luis Guzmán won the Imagen Foundation Award in 2003 . Adam Sandler and Paul Thomas Anderson each won a prize at the Gijón International Film Festival in 2002 . Paul Thomas Anderson and the film for Best Picture won the 2003 Central Ohio Film Critics Award .
Paul Thomas Anderson was also nominated for the Palme d'Or in 2002 and won a 2002 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Director .
The film won 3 Chlotrudis Awards - Audience Awards for Best Picture , Best Director and Adam Sandler for Best Actor .
backgrounds
Production costs amounted to about 25 million US dollars . Box office earnings in US cinemas were approximately $ 17 million.
The action element of the air miles credited by purchasing large quantities of pudding is based on a true story.
Web links
- Punch-Drunk Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Punch-Drunk Love at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Punch-Drunk Love at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Punch-Drunk Love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2003 (PDF; test number: 92 715 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Punch-Drunk Love . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Punch-Drunk Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 15, 2017 .
- ↑ James Berardinelli, ReelViews
- ↑ Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
- ↑ snopes.com: Pudding on the Ritz