24. Punch-Drunk Love(2002)
Adam Sandler plays Barry Egan, a man who owns a company that markets assorted novelty items including "fungers," which are humorously themed toilet plungers. Welcome to an Adam Sandler film!
As opposed to your standard Sandler fare, though, "Punch-Drunk Love" is all about more genuine emotion. Paul Thomas Anderson once again shows how he can get the best out of any actor(see: Burt Reynolds, Tom Cruise) and gives Adam Sandler the darkest performance of his lifetime. Barry is a repressed, violent man with a perverse way of showing love and affection and who may or may not be borderline insane. He's basically a standard Adam Sandler character if that character existed in the real world: a dangerously unbalanced man whose passiveness underlies a stewing rage.
"Punch-Drunk Love" is one of the most surreal love stories you'll ever see and it's more than excellent in that regard.
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