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.
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.
Austin Chronicle
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.
Intense look at gender and relationships is best for adults.
Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
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.
