Not surprisingly, some of these monologues are more successful than others, and taken together they create a speed-dating-for-sociopaths effect. The subjects are each hideous in their own fashion, comprised of different ratios of the comic, tragic, pathetic, and horrific. As research, she conducts a series of interviews with different morally compromised male subjects, and hopes to find an answer to the question posed by every broken heart: why? Sara is spurred to write a dissertation on the male psyche after being inexplicably betrayed and dumped by her boyfriend, Ryan (Krasinski). This allows Krasinksi to put the words of certain subjects from the book into the mouths of people in Sara's life, and links the interviews more explicitly together. The one big - and effective - liberty Krasinski takes with Foster Wallace is creating anthropology graduate student Sara Quinn (Julianne Nicholson). John Krasinski (best known as "Jim" from "The Office") makes his directorial debut with "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men." Adapted from the late David Foster Wallace's short story collection, Krasinski leaves the source material largely alone, choosing to remix rather than rewrite.
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