Punch-Drunk Love is a mysterious movie, tough to categorize in anyway except to say it is a brilliant love story. If Juno is quirky and Eternal Sunshine is eccentric, then Punch-Drunk Love is flat-out deranged. Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan, a small business owner who specializes in selling plungers. One day, a truck conspicuously drops a harmonium (like a piano, only not) on the side of the road, and Barry snags it up. He is a loner with seven sisters, a family situation which must have driven him to insanity and back. Nobody really understands him until one day a woman, a coworker of one of his sister’s, drops by to meet him. Barry is smitten right away. Scored with the harmonium and Shelley Duvall’s singing of “He Needs Me” from Popeye (1980), Punch-Drunk Love is at once comically daring, part Hitchcockian thriller, and bizarrely sweet.
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