
Please Give(2010)
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.


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.

Julianne Nicholson
Sara

Will Arnett
Subject #11

Bobby Cannavale
Subject #40

Michael Cerveris
Subject #15

Josh Charles
Subject #2

Dominic Cooper
Daniel / Subject #46

Frankie Faison
Subject #42

Will Forte
Subject #72

Benjamin Gibbard
Harry / Subject #20

Malcolm Goodwin
Father of Subject #42
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a comedy, drama film released in 2009. Directed by John Krasinski, it stars Julianne Nicholson, Will Arnett, Bobby Cannavale. 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.
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