Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Sep 25, 2009

1h 20m

★ 5.1

Overview

After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Woodshed Entertainment

Salty Features

Sunday Night Productions

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Trailers

Cast

Sara

Julianne Nicholson

Subject #11

Will Arnett

Subject #40

Bobby Cannavale

Subject #15

Michael Cerveris

Subject #2

Josh Charles

Daniel / Subject #46

Dominic Cooper

Subject #42

Frankie Faison

Subject #72

Will Forte

Harry / Subject #20

Benjamin Gibbard

Father of Subject #42

Malcolm Goodwin

Professor Adams / Subject #30

Timothy Hutton

Ryan / Subject #20

John Krasinski

Lucas just lost his father and everything around him is starting to crumble. One day he meets Alvaro, who offers him money in exchange for some innocent pictures. Álvaro will use them to create fake accounts in social media to “just talk”, he assures, with underage girls. Desperate for money, Lucas takes the deal.

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