Product Details

• Actors: Michael Riley, Sonja Bennett, Meredith McGeachie, Marcia Laskowski, Vincent Gale
• Directors: Guy Bennett (II)
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Dej
• DVD Release Date: June 10, 2003
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000093NPT
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #130,260 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Punch" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth taking a swing at, May 19, 2005

By	Dan Brady (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews

Okay - up front, the characters aren't typical of movies. The father is a wimp, totally lost at how to discipline his daughter. The daughter is socially estranged, fixated on her father, jealous of his girlfriend, and simmering with anger. The girlfriend is emotionally timid, indecisive, and scorns her sister while feeling guilt about not protecting her from some dark secret in their past. The sister is compassionate to women and emotionally abusive to men, quick to take offense at every opportunity. The topless boxing is populated by women who look better with their clothes on, and the bartender is an insensitive clod.

In short, they're typical people, with all of the flaws of people that we know - they're annoyingly believable. Nobody is Hollywood beautiful, the characters are human, and you see hints at stories that you never learn.

The main plot is about watching these people deal with their problems, and the problems of the people that they care about. The ending is on a hopeful note - but it's no fairy-tale "they lived happily ever after".

All in all, an amazingly realistic look at very realistic people - not a great movie, but good, and beautifully casted, written, and directed.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking, funny, off-beat, May 23, 2003

By A Customer

Great acting, marvelous script, beautiful cinematography.

You might think that a movie containing topless female boxing is basically a movie to get drunk to, but this one is not. It's funny, unpredictable, tender, strangely up-beat, rude and intimate.

How very Canadian to have a male lead who doesn't try to grab the limelight. Bravo to the subtle Canadian actor, Michael Riley. And how very gutsy to have a female lead (Sonja Bennett) who is willing to be thoroughly dislikeable almost the entire was through.

It's a film worth seeing at least twice (I saw it three times when it was released in Canada earlier this year).

It's about family relationships, love, overcoming dysfunctions, growing up, grieving, hope - and, of course, topless female boxing. Did I mention that Punch is hilarious? It is.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars knockout movie, April 6, 2004

By A Customer

I was intrigued when I saw this movie in the store. When I watched it I wasn't too dissapointed. The story surrounds an anger fueled, anti-social teenage girl named Ariel and her single father who both seem to have their share of problems in life. Things start to heat up when Ariel becomes rivals with her dad's new girlfriend and her sister. It's a movie worth checking out.