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.
4 May 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
19 July 1983, Texas, USA
26 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
25 February 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 August 1974, New York City, New York, USA
3 May 1970, Union City, New Jersey, USA
20 October 1979, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
2 April 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
16 September 1985, Hampstead, London, England, UK
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
17 January 1962, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
22 May 1980, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
1 July 1971, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
16 August 1960, Malibu, California, USA
27 July 1985, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
2 October 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 June 1978, Greenwich, London, England, UK
5 August 1973, Dallas, Texas, USA
14 March 1976, New York City, New York, USA
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
17 June 1970, Alameda County, California, USA
11 August 1976, Bremerton, Washington, USA
6 November 1960, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
7 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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...
November 30, 2009
Painfully pretentious and shallow.
December 30, 2010
Intense look at gender and relationships is best for adults.
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.
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.
March 25, 2010
John Krasinski takes a distinct, deliberate step away from romantic comedies for a darkly comic look at human interaction.
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 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
Tthough this experiment doesn't quite succeed, there's enough intelligence and insight in this movie to make it worth the attempt.
