Punch-Drunk Love

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Punch-Drunk Love is a 2002 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Adam Sandler and Emily Watson star. Anderson regulars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzman also appear.

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Barry Egan (Sandler) is a sales executive for a company which markets novelty items such as toilet plungers with see-through handles. Despite having seven overbearing sisters he has a very lonely life which is punctuated by fits of rage. His life simultaneously gets better and worse when he strikes up a relationship with his sister's friend Lena (Watson), after attempting to solace his loneliness by responding to a phone sex advertisement placed by some unscrupulous out of town operators.