Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

** Stars

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men? More like Confessions of Overly-Dramatic Boys. And while I'll admit that isn't the best way to some up John Krasinski's ambitious but failing attempt at tackling the mind of David Foster Wallace, it certainly labels a movie that's desperately in search of a tone. For a brief 80 minutes (no irony intended) this film covers a heartbroken graduate student named Sara Quinn (Julianne Nicholson) coping with a break-up by interviewing men with loads of personal issues. I am sad to report that there is not one man in this entire film that can shed anything worth hearing, therefore ruining all possibility of relating to any situation or character. On a positive note, Krasinski does show some talent here both on and off the camera, including an interesting scene involving two men narrating a woman's heartbreak at an airport, and a very strongly acted scene where Krasinski breaks up with his girlfriend by recalling an experience of a woman who is raped while hitchhiking. However, and to be perfectly honest, it's just way too hard for me to enjoy a film where the two bests scenes in the film involve such brutality. Against both sexes.