Whenever an actor or actress decides to try their hand at directing a feature film, you never know what you’re going to get. You might see the promise of another multi-talented actor/director like Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson, or you might just end up with Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (ha… that one was for Reed). John Krasinski of The Office has been making the best of his rise to fame, and in between starring in George Clooney’s Leatherheads and Sam Mendes’ Away We Go, he also managed to write and direct his first movie. Not just any movie either: an adaptation of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by the late David Foster Wallace.

Wallace committed suicide just last year, and this is the first adaptation of his work to hit the screen. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a collection of short stories about men, their insecurities, and their weird sexual hang-ups, each presented as an interview transcript. In the movie, Julianne Nicholson plays a woman conducting these interviews for her grad studies. Krasinski himself stars, along with Will Arnett, Will Forte, Bobby Cannavale, Max Minghella, Timothy Hutton, and yes, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie fame. The movie received mixed reviews at Sundance, and the jury is still out on whether or not Krasinski might have a directorial career ahead of him. IFC will release it simultaneously in select theatres and through VOD on September 25th; scope out the trailer after the jump.