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Reviews Counted: 4

Fresh: 1

Rotten:3

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Genre: Black Comedy

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: Proving that he's more than just a pretty, funny face, THE OFFICE's John Krasinski gets credit as writer and director in this adaptation of a David Foster Wallace novel. Julianne Nicholson (LAW &... Proving that he's more than just a pretty, funny face, THE OFFICE's John Krasinski gets credit as writer and director in this adaptation of a David Foster Wallace novel. Julianne Nicholson (LAW & ORDER: SVU) stars as Sara Quinn, an anthropology grad student who attempts to dissect a recent breakip with her knowledge of human behavior and interviews with a number of men. BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN also stars Bobby Cannavale, Josh Charles, Deathcab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard, Christopher Meloni, and Timothy Hutton. [More]

Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, Josh Charles

Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, Josh Charles, Dominic Cooper, Will Forte, Ben Gibbard, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Max Minghella, Denis O'Hare, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ben Shenkman

Director: John Krasinski

Director: John Krasinski
Screenwriter: John Krasinski

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An uneven, intriguing adaptation of David Foster Wallace's book of short stories, the film and its bits-and-pieces structure ultimately don't add up to as much as hoped.

Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
05/09/09
Tim Grierson
Screen International

Fails for all the reasons you'd expect it to fail.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment 1 Comment
02/25/09
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Feels like 25 very brief stage plays jammed together -- maybe five of which are worth sitting through.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment 1 Comment
02/02/09
Scott Weinberg
Cinematical

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is a noble failure of a film that’s worth a lot more than many of the safer if more achieved works premiering beside it at Sundance 2009.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment 3 Comments
01/28/09
Ray Greene
Boxoffice Magazine
 
 
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