Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
About this movie
- Synopsis
- Adapted and directed by John Krasinski ("The Office," 'Away We Go'), 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men' is a darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women....
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- Director(s)
- John Krasinski
- Distributor(s)
- IFC
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 80 min.
Critic Reviews
One hell of a date movie. A surgical examination of the male psyche based on David Foster Wallace's book and written and directed by John Krasinski, there is plenty of food for thought and argument.Read the full review
Raises the question of whether Krasinski made this movie because he really loves Wallace’s work, or because just he wanted to show Hollywood that the loveable doof from The Office can actually act.Read the full review
At times, the movie could have been called "Me and You and Every One of the Bastards We Know," but Krasinski preserves Wallace's whooshing roller coasters of words, powered by the fuel of confession.Read the full review
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48% Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
11/04/09 Ambitious but uneven, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men tries hard but doesn't match the depth of the book. | Rotten Tomatoes -
46% Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
10/30/09 Ambitious but uneven, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men tries hard but doesn't match the depth of the book. | Rotten Tomatoes -
48% Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
10/12/09 Ambitious but uneven, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men tries hard but doesn't match the depth of the book. | Rotten Tomatoes -
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09/28/09 Julianne Nicholson ("Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men") will star in "This," the new play by Melissa James Gibson ("[sic]") bowing at Playwrights Horizons this fall. | Variety -
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09/27/09 After getting a bad rap for dissing Taylor Swift at the VMA 's, Kanye West is now on his best behavior. | New York Daily News - New York NY -
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09/27/09 Unfortunately in "Capitalisms shadow was a remarkably impressive debut care of Sony Pictures Classics' release of Anne Fontaine's "Coco Before Chanel." On five screens, the film - starring Audrey Tatou as Coco Chanel - grossed $177,137, finding the fifth best per-theater average of 2009. Its $35,427 PTA puts it behind only "Capitalism," "Sunshine," "The Hurt Locker" and "The September Issue." It also marks the best foreign-language debut in quite some time, eclipsing recent (and also French) benchmarks like "Summer Hours" ($24,742 PTA this past May), "Tell No One" ($21,213 PTA in July 2008) and "La Vie En Rose" ($22,481 in June 2007). | indieWIRE -
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All talk and no attraction
09/24/09 'BRIEF Interviews With Hideous Men" is a blast from the 1980s, when the idea that men were essentially rapists and women rapees was a popular way to score chicks on campus. | New York Post - New York NY -
Review: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men a Supposedly Fun Movie You'll Never Watch Again
09/24/09 If you're going to adapt the work of a literary wünderkind David Foster Wallace, then the movie better be good—because Wallace was great. | E! Online