The movie begins as Jack, the protagonist, is trapped in a state of insomnia by his
job at calculating the cost of recalling a faulty car as opposed to paying court settlements
to the relatives of the people killed by that car. He then recommends the one that seems
less expensive. While he tries to argue with a doctor about how he can start sleeping, the
doctor happens to make a sarcastic remark about how if he wants to see real pain he
should go to a support group for men with testicular cancer. Jack takes this remark
literally. It is there that he meets Bob, whom I shall describe shortly. Anywhere, he begins
to find the support groups addictive, and attends more and more of them, and finds that
they allow him to sleep.
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