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An inexplicably cheerful office
worker’s somewhat sad excuse for a life seems to revolve around her pet beagle
Pencil. When Peggy's dog Pencil dies after eating some sort of toxin, the
devastated dog-lover is wracked with guilt. Now desperate to fill the gaping
void that has suddenly opened in her life, Peggy agrees to a date with her
neighbor Al (John C. Reilly) that ends in disaster when she begins to suspect
that he may have in fact poisoned her ill-fated pooch. Later, after adopting
every dog at the local pound and transforming herself into an overzealous
animal-rights activist, the increasingly unhinged Peggy reaches out to asexual
activist Newt (Peter Sarsgaard) in a last-grasp attempt at forming a human
connection that is met with casual indifference.
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