Hawaiian Punch: Andrew Hultkrans on Paul Thomas Anderson. (Film).(Movie Review)

"GEEK LOVE" WOULD BE the perfect title for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, were it not already taken by Katherine Dunn's 1989 carry novel. Instead, the young writer-director settled for Punch-Drunk Love to describe his "$25 million Adam Sandler art-house movie," a conscious attempt to rein in his epic, ensemble-cast instincts and have a puckish go at the moribund romantic-comedy genre.

Punch-Drunk's high/low high jinks are immediately apparent, pairing Hollywood's lowbrow cash cow Sandler with Lars von Trier alumna Emily Watson and mingling a nonprofessional ...

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