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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Directed by
John Krasinski
Not Rated
2009
80m
Comedy
,
Drama
5.4
40%
32%
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A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.
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Cast of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Julianne Nicholson
Sara
Will Arnett
Subject #11
Bobby Cannavale
Subject #40
Michael Cerveris
Subject #15
Josh Charles
Subject #2
Dominic Cooper
Daniel / Subject #46
Frankie Faison
Subject #42
Will Forte
Subject #72
Benjamin Gibbard
Harry / Subject #20
Malcolm Goodwin
Father of Subject #42
Timothy Hutton
Professor Adams / Subject #30
John Krasinski
Ryan / Subject #20 / Director / Writer / Producer
Christopher Meloni
R / Subject #3
Chris Messina
Subject #19
Max Minghella
Kevin / Subject #28
Denis O'Hare
A / Subject #3
Clarke Peters
Subject #31
Lou Taylor Pucci
Evan / Subject #28
Ben Shenkman
Subject #14
Joey Slotnick
Tad / Subject #59
Corey Stoll
Subject #51
Rashida Jones
Hannah
Marin Ireland
Samantha
Lorri Bagley
Airport Girl
David Foster Wallace
Writer
Jacqueline Brogan
Writer
Eva Kolodner
Producer
Yael Melamede
Producer
James Suskin
Producer
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Ratings & Reviews
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
Faced with the unenviable choice between honoring his daunting inspiration and telling his own story, the director shoots straight down the middle -- and misses both targets.
Moving Pictures Magazine
Annlee Ellingson
John Krasinski takes a distinct, deliberate step away from romantic comedies for a darkly comic look at human interaction.
Philadelphia Weekly
Sean Burns
Everywhere this poor lady tries to go, there's always a guy or two loudly performing a David Foster Wallace monologue within earshot.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Krasinski re-creates the interviews using Wallace's original, but this isn't exactly a letter-of-the-law adaptation -- he tightens the interviews and defangs some of the language.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Offers is the opportunity for a bunch of actors, many of them tethered to TV series, to deliver theatrical monologues pulsing with misogyny and narcissism. It's like second-rate Neil Labute.
At the Movies
Michael Phillips
I worry that this film is static enough and stiff enough that it's going to keep people away from discovering David Foster Wallace if they haven't read him.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
Tthough this experiment doesn't quite succeed, there's enough intelligence and insight in this movie to make it worth the attempt.
TIME Magazine
Mary F. Pols
[Krasinski's] generosity of intent is really the main impression that remains. He read, he loved, and unfortunately, he did not conquer.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Actor John Krasinski deserves credit for having the ambition to adapt material as difficult as David Foster Wallace's short stories.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Krasinski literalizes Wallace's stylistic love of asides too much, but it helps that he's aware enough of his movie's limitations to keep Brief Interviews blessedly short.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Everyone speaks in the sweatily polysyllabic, Look-at-This-Writing-I'm-Doing tone that makes a page of Wallace pass like an hour on the treadmill, and the men are dopes or creeps.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
It's an undeniably ambitious, if uneven, effort. Some of Krasinski's directorial flourishes are inspired, such as Christopher Meloni's imaginative re-telling (and offbeat re-enacting) about a woman he met as she stood crying at the airport.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Compacted into an 80-minute mishmash of interviews, confessions and sketches, melded into a shaky mosaic, the answers from a cross section of men are shallow, self-serving and ultimately unenlightening.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
These performers, as inspired as some of them are, spoil a sinister book with earnest acting.
DVDTalk.com
Jason Bailey
Flawed and uncertain and occasionally too mannered, yes, but it is also funny and unorthodox and sharp as a razor.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
The movie is never a chore to watch, but its characters feel like microbes under glass: tiny, remote and insignificant.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Krasinski preserves Wallace's whooshing roller coasters of words, powered by the fuel of confession.
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
Whatever it was about Hideous Men that so deeply affected Krasinski the college student has been lost in translation.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Brief Interviews is interesting in pieces, but overwhelming in its totality.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's ... Brief Interviews With Hideous Men works only in spurts, but when it does, it's enough to remind us how much deeper our dramatists could drill -- and of the magnitude of Wallace's loss.
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