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.
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05/09/09
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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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 &... [More]
Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Cerveris, Josh Charles
Director: John Krasinski
Reviews for Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
1 - 4 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Fails for all the reasons you'd expect it to fail.
02/25/09
Feels like 25 very brief stage plays jammed together -- maybe five of which are worth sitting through.
02/02/09
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.
01/28/09
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