Krasinski: 'I've made a feminist movie'

The Office star John Krasinski has described his directorial debut as a "feminist movie".

The actor's film Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, based on collection of short stories by the late David Foster Wallace, follows a female graduate student who quizzes unlikable men for her dissertation.

Speaking at the movie's Sundance Film Festival premiere, Krasinski said: "She's basically interviewing all these guys trying to get a lot of information about what goes on and what makes men make these decisions, and you realise later that she has a romantic tie to one of them and this is more of a personal crusade rather than an academic one.

"I think at the end of the day it's a feminist movie, which I'm really proud of."

Julianne Nicholson, who plays the interviewer, said: "Did I learn that all men are bastards? No, no. I think they're all good at heart - they just sometimes can do hideous things."

Krasinski, Dominic Cooper, Christopher Meloni and Max Minghella are among the Hideous Men cast.