PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002)

THE ROLE Small-business owner Barry Egan, who has seven nagging sisters, a tendency toward violent outbursts, and a budding romance with the seemingly sane Lena (Emily Watson)

WHAT EW SAID Owen Gleiberman: ''Can we believe that a perfectly normal woman would embrace this stammering goofball? To even ask the question is to reject the film's hyperreal wavelength of solipsistic romanticism. Lena is attracted to Barry because she looks into his heart and sees a reflection of what the audience watching the movie sees in Sandler: a fumbling misfit who is all thumbs because he is all feeling.''