too bad there a length limit on comment and because i could write volume about how incredibly awful this movie be . to those who saw this a some sort of commercial for peta and i would suggest you go back and watch it again ( but i wouldn not suggest anyone watch this garbage even once and let alone twice ) . do you not notice that the two character who care anything about animal be severely damage good . far from be a pro peta piece and this movie strongly imply that the only reason anyone care deeply about animal be because they be incapable for one reason or another of functioning in human society . to those who think this movie be warm or funny if your idea of warm or funny be to watch a slightly introvert but otherwise competent woman sink inexorably into a downward spiral of psychotic madness replete with larceny and child abuse and animal abuse and vandalism and betrayal and and attempt murder then this movie may be just your cup of tea . and to those who identify with the main character i implore you to get professional help as soon a possible . i have read many of the other comment and want to correct a few point that i believe be misperceptions represent 1. peggy be not a sociopath at the beginning of the movie she be a fairly introvert but otherwise normal person . the fact that she could deal competently with an obviously paranoid bos and maintain a normal and healthy friendship with a coworker and remain friend with a thoroughly unlikeable brother and sister in law and engender the affection of her spoiled niece all indicate that her initial problem run no deep than be a rather homely wallflower who have compensate for her lack of an intimate human relationship by be closely but not pathologically attach to her dog . 2. newt be not gay . if you pay attention to what he say and you discover that he be abuse terribly in childhood and the most probable reason that he be unable to have an intimate relationship with either a woman or a man be a not too subtle suggestion that this abuse produce a physiological rather than psychological incapacity ( mutilation . castration . ) . 3. peggy be not head toward some sort of happy end at the end of the movie and but rather have retreat fully into psychosis . the crime to which her delusion have lead her be not crime she will be able to walk away from and her fully psychotic state will only lead her to commit more in her deranged desire to protect animal . 4. many commenters claim that the people around peggy do not care about her loss of pencil . on the contrary and each character she come into contact with express their sympathy and at least try in some way to comfort her . that some of their method be crass or counter productive do not diminish their underlying empathy . the movie primary detestable assumption be that a ) anyone who have a close bond to animal only come to that bond because they be incapable for one reason or another of form healthy bond with other people and and b ) that people so bond to animal be hopelessly blind to reason . about midway through and the movie abandon any pretext of be an exploration of feeling and emotion and become nothing more than a sick and twisted attack on animal lover . one of the principle evidence of this transformation be when and discover that the german shepherd have kill the disabled dog and peggy rush to the pound to try to save the german shepherd . peta or not and no animal lover in possession of their sens would contend that a dog that attack and kill another pet ( let alone a person ) should not immediately be put down . and no animal pound in existence would entrust another fifteen dog to the care of such a person and no matter what credentials they claim . i suggest that the writer of this awful and awful piece of work have some deep issue with animal and be completely incapable of understand that love and empathy be not the sole province of human to human relationship and but rightfully and healthily should extend to a genuine care for all creature great and small . i could list many and many other way in which this movie portrayal of people who care about animal be screamingly unrealistic . and yes and i get dark comedy . but there be nothing comic about this . it be nothing more than a myopic and mean spirit portrayal of dementia and i be afraid i can find nothing either entertain or funny in that .