Film of Wallace’s ‘Hideous Men’ to Be Released - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

On Monday, IFC Films said in a news release that it had acquired U.S. distribution rights to the movie, and that it would open in theaters and appear on video-on-demand services on Sept. 25. The film, which had its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, marks the directorial debut of the actor John Krasinski (of NBC’s “The Office”) and stars Julianne Nicholson (“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”) as a graduate student who is interviewing men for a thesis project, as well as Will Arnett, Dominic Cooper, Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni and Mr. Krasinski as the subjects of some of those interrogations. Mr. Krasinski has said he first got the idea for the film as a student at Brown University, where he acted in a staged reading of the book, a collection of short stories and monologues.