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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men, all sorts of men, trying to unearth the mystery of their bizarre behavior.
16 September 1985, Hampstead, London, England, UK
3 May 1970, Union City, New Jersey, USA
4 May 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
16 August 1960, Malibu, California, USA
17 June 1970, Alameda County, California, USA
14 March 1976, New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
26 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
11 August 1974, New York City, New York, USA
7 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
5 August 1973, Dallas, Texas, USA
December 30, 2010
Intense look at gender and relationships is best for adults.March 19, 2010
Everywhere this poor lady tries to go, there's always a guy or two loudly performing a David Foster Wallace monologue within earshot.September 28, 2009
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.November 13, 2009
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.September 28, 2009
[Krasinski's] generosity of intent is really the main impression that remains. He read, he loved, and unfortunately, he did not conquer.November 12, 2009
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.December 09, 2011
...far more successful as an actor's showcase than as a fully-realized movie...September 28, 2009
Tthough this experiment doesn't quite succeed, there's enough intelligence and insight in this movie to make it worth the attempt.March 25, 2010
John Krasinski takes a distinct, deliberate step away from romantic comedies for a darkly comic look at human interaction.July 04, 2010
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.November 30, 2009
Painfully pretentious and shallow.