Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 film scripted and directed by John Krasinski, based on a short story collection of the same name by David Foster Wallace. It is a darkly funny and disturbing exploration of men and their complex relationships with women.
Plot: After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university Sara Quinn is left looking for answers as to what went wrong. Directing all her energies into her anthropological dissertation, Sara conducts a series of interviews with men in an effort to uncover the secret thoughts that drive their behavior. She thinks she can remedy both her heartache and her academic challenges with a new research project and begins conducting a series of interviews with men. As she records the astonishing and disquieting experiences of various subjects, Sara discovers much more about men and herself than she bargained for.
Cast
* Julianne Nicholson – Sara Quinn
* Ben Shenkman – Subject 14
* Timothy Hutton – Professor Adams / Subject 30
* Michael Cerveris – Subject 15
* Corey Stoll – Subject 51
* Chris Messina – Subject 19
* Max Minghella – Kevin / Subject 28
