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Kingpin - He's a very sick man

At the 2019 Academy Awards, Peter Farrelly won two Oscars for his work on the race relations drama Green Book. Yes, the guy who made some of the grossest and most outrageous comedies of the '90s ù There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, and Kingpin ù owns more Oscars than Martin Scorsese. He's also made way more bowling comedies than Scorsese. Well, just the one:áKingpin.á

Former bowling champion Roy Munsen (Woody Harrelson)áis down on his luck. An attempt to hustle amateur bowlers goes poorly, and he loses his hand in a ball return accident. Two decades later, he's reduced to selling bowling supplies and spends most of his time drinking. All of this leaves him extremely poor, and he has little choice but to bed down with his landlady (Lin Shaye) so she'll be more forgiving with his perpetually late rent payments.á

That's the uncomfortable setup ù an alcoholic has to prostitute himself to not be homeless. There's an even more unsettling payoff. Roy stages an attack on the landlady (so as to chase the guy off and earn himself some favor), but she finds out about it, and she forces him to make it up to her in the bedroom. Cut to the landlady, presented as elderly and unattractive, lying in bed smoking a cigarette in post-coital bliss while Roy throws up in the adjoining bathroom.