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Used
Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Punch-Drunk Love
Special Edition
Emily Watson (Actor), Adam Sandler (Actor), Paul Thomas Anderson (Director, Producer) Rated:
R
Format: DVD
Product Description
Winner of the Best Director Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, "this misfit love story of disconnected people trying to find one another in an antagonistic world is a comedy of discomfort and rage that turns unexpectedly sweet and pure." Adam Sandler gives an amazing and unusual performance asBarry Egan, a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life, hisemotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and self-doubt. "Punch-Drunk Love leaves you addled, a little dizzy and overcome by a pleasing, unplaceable sensation." "A romantic comedy as wonderful as it is strange that expands the genre to its absurdist outer limits and makes us believe." From the writer/director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love is a dark, lovely and unique film experience.
Additional Features
Punch-Drunk Love is not typical Superbit fare, but the higher bit rate does beautifully present cinematographer Robert Elswit's striking colors, including the Jeremy Blake art. While the sound mix is mostly unobtrusive, there are some vivid moments that are well rendered in DTS. Unlike the majority of Superbit DVDs, there are some extra features on a second disc, and they're as much experiential as informational. A 12-minute piece, "Blossoms & Blood," compiles some alternate takes of events in the Barry-Lena relationship accompanied by Jon Brion's music, and 12 scopitones and a 2.5-minute segment showcase more art and music. There are also two unremarkable alternate scenes plus a mock commercial for Philip Seymour Hoffman's Mattress Man character that will make you wince and probably laugh. –David Horiuchi
Special features
"Blossoms & Blood" (12-minute feature including alternate takes, Jeremy Blake artwork, and Jon Brion's "Here We Go" music video directed by PTA)
Deleted scenes
Mattress Man commercial
12 Scopitones
Additional artwork by Jeremy Blake
Product details
Actors: Emily Watson, Adam Sandler, Philip Hoffman, Luis Guzman, Mary Lynn Rajskub
Directors: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar
Format: DTS Surround Sound, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Special Edition, Color
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), English (DTS 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles: English, French
Dubbed: French
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated:
R
Restricted
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: June 24, 2003
Run Time: 95 minutes
