REVIEW: Love Is Strange--So Is He

Why does Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) have several dozen boxes of pudding piled up in his office? That's easy: each carries a coupon worth 500 frequent-flyer miles. Even though Barry never goes anywhere, he can't resist the bargain.

Why does Barry every now and then destroy a bathroom or a glass patio door? Dunno. Won't even speculate. Probably just one of those inexplicably surreal accidents that writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson likes. Remember the frog shower in Magnolia?

And, finally, what in the name of all that's unholy does Lena Leonard (Emily Watson) see in this creepy, inarticulate character? She is...

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