1. Philip Seymour Hoffman: The Mattress Man

    Looking back at Philip Seymour Hoffman’s stint as Dean Trumbell - Mattress Man by day, seedy phone-sex scamster by night. As foil to Sandler’s Barry Egan in Punch Drunk Love, Hoffman goes so far as to faithfully recreate a real-life, small-time commercial spot gone bad. Never making the final cut in the Paul Thomas Anderson classic, only available via the bonus features on the DVD. Compare the two.

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