Criterion Blu-ray release
In the comedies that made him famous — Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, etc. — Adam Sandler frequently played the same type of character: the short-tempered man-child, as prone to violent outbursts as he was to dumb jokes. These films, while occasionally amusing, were not exactly high-art. And Sandler, while a likable doof, never struck one as a “serious” leading man. So when Paul Thomas Anderson, fresh off Magnolia, declared he wanted to make a film with Adam Sandler, many thought the filmmaker was kidding.
He wasn’t: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/blu/blu-ray-review-punch-drunk-love/