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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men starring Julianne Nicholson, Timothy Hutton & John Krasinski

Posted on January 21, 2011 Written by ripitup

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men starring Julianne Nicholson, Timothy Hutton & John Krasinski
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men starring Julianne Nicholson, Timothy Hutton & John Krasinski

Yep, the title doesn’t sound appealing at all. And the movie is even less appealing. I gave it my best shot but after 40 minutes, I made good use of the fast forward button.
I tried to watch it because Timothy Hutton co-stars and more often than not, he stars in good movies. This is not one of them.

The plot?

Professor Adams (Timothy Hutton)’s assistant Sara (Julianne Nicholson) has been cheated on and dumped by her boyfriend Ryan. So she interviews a wide range of men on the subject of women, as means to cope with her break-up with men and well, eventually trying to make sense of them.

Unfortunately for the audience, none of the men say anything remotely interestingand Sara doesn’t come off as smart or pretty. She just seems obsessed.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 movie was based on the story collections by David Foster Wallace. It was adapted and directed by John Krasinski, who also plays Ryan.

I have no idea what fascinated John into shooting this movie. Yes, the movie is supposedly a comedy/drama but it feels like one long and annoying documentary.
The movie also features Will Arnett and Dominic Cooper.
At 5.6 on IMDB, I’d have to say it is hideously overrated.

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City of Industry starring Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff and Timothy Hutton

The Killing Room starring Timothy Hutton

Ordinary People starring Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch

Serious Moonlight starring Timothy Hutton and Meg Ryan

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Leverage TV Series starring Timothy Hutton

The Ghost Writer starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. Feat. Timothy Hutton

The Good Shepherd starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie. Feat. Timothy Hutton

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When in Rome starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel

Posted on June 5, 2010 Written by ripitup

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When In Rome starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel.
When In Rome starring Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel. Image from: http://www.torrentavi.com

Beth (Kristen Bell) is a young and successful curator in New York. She’s had terrible luck with love, having been dumped by Brady (a cameo by Lee Pace) and all. So she is skeptical when her sister Joan (Alexis Dziena) tells her that she is marrying an Italian guy called Umberto (Luca Calvani), whom she practically just met. But of course in the name of being a supportive sister, she persuades her tough boss (Anjelica Huston) that she will be to and back from the wedding (in Rome) in 48 hours.

But at the wedding, she meets the handsome best man Nick (Josh Duhamel). He is handsome, sweet,funny and just as work-oriented. She thinks she might have some luck after all but after she ends up being disappointed, she gets drunk and does something weird. She picks up 5 coins from the fountain of love. And the moment she does, 5 men- 1 Italian painter and 4 Americans: a magician, a much older businessman, a model in love with himself and Nick are smitten with her. But then again,Nick was already smitten.

So the rest of the story takes us back to New York, where Beth tries to continues to resume her life. But while Nick pursues her like a normal boy with a crush, the other 4 are acting like deranged and love-struck stalkers. Soon Beth finds out that something “supernatural” is at work. The hard thing is, when will she have the time to sort it? She’s too busy with her work, falling in love with Nick and trying to escape from the mad quadruplet…

The “Italian” painter is played by Will Arnett. Jon Heder (played the “righteous” psychic in Just Like Heaven) plays the weird magician, Danny De Vito plays the sausage king and Dax Shepard plays the model. Now, the cast is fine. I mean even Beth’s father is someone you might know: Don Johnson. Lee Pace makes a cameo…The premise is OK. It’s just that the story and the situations and most interactions are too silly for their own good. When the men are under the spell, they act like a combination of Jeff from The Coupling (Coupling UK) and Jim Carrey’s Cable- that nutty, that challenged yet not funny. Yes, Jeff was hilarious in Coupling. But here are we have 4 worse-than-Jeff suitors and one really clumsy hunk.

The movie is not bad. It is just not really good either. It is completely harmless. It will generate some laughs and will entertain most of the time. But something is missing. Sometimes it makes you laugh and sometimes it just makes you cringe. But I am not saying you should absolutely stay away from it. It is very light. I like Kristen Bell . By now, I think people mostly heard of Josh Duhamel. He starred in the tv show Las Vegas, appeared in The Transformers movies and got married to Fergie. I don’t think any movie will hurt his celebrity status now…

5.1 on IMDB. I do have to agree. I expected something better. I wish Lee Pace appeared more than just for a couple of minutes. Seriously. Someone really should find another agent for this guy. So,  see to watch a great wedding place, Rome and New York all in one. My favorite part of the movie is the dancing sequence at the end credits.

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Serious Moonlight starring Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell and Justin Long

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