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.
7 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
16 September 1985, Hampstead, London, England, UK
16 August 1960, Malibu, California, USA
6 November 1960, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
3 May 1970, Union City, New Jersey, USA
19 July 1983, Texas, USA
5 August 1973, Dallas, Texas, USA
17 January 1962, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1 July 1971, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
22 May 1980, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
11 August 1976, Bremerton, Washington, USA
14 March 1976, New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
25 February 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 October 1979, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
2 June 1978, Greenwich, London, England, UK
17 June 1970, Alameda County, California, USA
10 June 1949, Newport News, Virginia, USA
4 May 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
27 July 1985, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA
2 October 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA
11 August 1974, New York City, New York, USA
15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
December 30, 2010
Intense look at gender and relationships is best for adults.
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.
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.
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
[Krasinski's] generosity of intent is really the main impression that remains. He read, he loved, and unfortunately, he did not conquer.
November 30, 2009
Painfully pretentious and shallow.
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.
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.
March 25, 2010
John Krasinski takes a distinct, deliberate step away from romantic comedies for a darkly comic look at human interaction.
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...
