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Director:
Writers:
Peter Straughan (screenplay)
Toby Young (book)
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Release Date:
3 October 2008 (USA) more
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Brace yourselves, America. more
Plot:
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People". full summary | full synopsis
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Great fun, absorbing and thought provoking. Plenty of fascinating characters. more (69 total)

Cast

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Kelan Pannell ... Young Sidney Young
Janette Scott ... Mrs. Young

Simon Pegg ... Sidney Young

Megan Fox ... Sophie Maes

Gillian Anderson ... Eleanor Johnson
Kelly Jo Charge ... Apollo Awards Presenter
Christian Smith ... Apollo Awards Guest
Katherine Parkinson ... PR Woman
Felicity Montagu ... Clipboard Nazi

Thandie Newton ... Herself
John Lightbody ... Assistant Hotel Manager
Ian Bonar ... Post Modern Review Staff #1
James Corden ... Post Modern Review Staff #2
Fenella Woolgar ... Post Modern Review Staff #3

Chris O'Dowd ... Post Modern Review Staff #4
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Rated R for language, some graphic nudity and brief drug material.
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110 min
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More Lewbowski references: The character played by Kirsten Dunst comes from Port Huron, Michigan. In The Big Lebowski (1998), the Dude is the co-author of the radical Port Huron Statement from the 1960s. more
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Crew or equipment visible: During a scene in which Sidney and Alison are walking along a street in New York together, in one of the shots a shadow of the camera equipment and operator is clearly visible. more
Quotes:
Sidney Young: [to his father] You thought Brad Pitt was a cave in Yorkshire. more
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References "The Twilight Zone" (1959) more
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Drinks Taste Better When They're Free more

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50 out of 68 people found the following comment useful.
Great fun, absorbing and thought provoking. Plenty of fascinating characters., 24 October 2008
8/10
Author: geoffgee from Sheffield, England.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that How to Lose Friends and Alienate People was nowhere near as 'gross-out' a comedy as the trailer had led me to expect. I rapidly became absorbed in the unfolding of the narrative and remained engrossed throughout. Pacing of the more visual humorous content was, I thought, spot on. (I mean I got the impression I was witnessing Pegg's attempts at restoring lost control very much 'in real time', so to speak.) At other moments there was time allowed to share the main protagonists' (i.e. Pegg's and Dunst's) reflection on how events were affecting them and what had led them to where they now found themselves. All the characters were well cast, to some extent interesting in and of themselves, and generally quite likable. (Any apparent ruthless ambition displayed tended to be tempered by a corresponding good natured resilience.) An entertaining, intelligently scripted, brilliantly directed and superbly acted film that I would thoroughly recommend.

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