Punch-Drunk Love
Cult Classics
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 – SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15
General Admission: $9 | Loft Members: $6
Passes Accepted
This Valentine’s weekend, celebrate romance the Paul Thomas Anderson way with Adam Sandler and Emily Watson in the off-kilter rom com, Punch-Drunk Love!
Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flier-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Fueled by the careening momentum of a baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance. (Dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002, USA, 95 mins., Rated R)
