'He paused, and then he said that's what he was trying to do in the book. 'I told him how I had changed the script to center around a woman who is either a psychology or anthropology grad student and that's her connection to these men, she's interviewing them for her thesis,' Krasinski explained in a recent interview. But Krasinski was determined to bring the material to the big screen (it was adapted for stage in 2000) and created a character to help tie together the inchoate narrative. Wallace's book-an exploration of the male psyche via 23 interviews with men all discussing a personal grotesque or bizarre characteristic-had been deemed unfilmable. The film was selected for the US Dramatic Competition in the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.About a month before Brief Interviews with Hideous Men started filming-and not long before the author David Foster Wallace committed suicide-director and ambitious adaptor John Krasinski (Jim in TV's The Office) discussed the project with Wallace. The website's critics consensus reads: 'Ambitious but uneven, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men tries hard but doesn't match the depth of the book.' On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 44 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 5.02/10. The film was shot in studios in Brooklyn, New York and exterior filming took place in Staten Island, New York, and on the campuses of Columbia University and Brooklyn College. As she begins to listen closely to the men around her, Sara must ultimately reconcile herself to the darkness that lies below the surface of human interactions.

Her intellectual endeavor has emotional consequences as the men’s twisted and revealing stories are juxtaposed against the backdrop of her own experience. Sara Quinn ( Julianne Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by interviewing men as part of her graduate studies. Based on a short story collection of the same name by David Foster Wallace. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski, in his directorial debut.

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