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Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   20,470 votes
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Director:
Robert B. Weide
Writers:
Peter Straughan (screenplay)
Toby Young (book)
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Release Date:
3 October 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
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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Does exactly what it says on the tin more (68 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
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 ... Apollo Awards Guest
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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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language, some graphic nudity and brief drug material.
Runtime:
110 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS
Company:
Number 9 Films more

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Trivia:
Part of the films marketing involves a spoof trailer for an erotic Mother Teresa biopic, in which the Megan Fox character Sophie Maes appears as the young and passionate Teresa. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At the stately home, when Sydney says, 'Do you want another drink?' and she says, 'Yeah, I'll have a half of lager,' he gets up and touches her on the shoulder, with his fingers pointing down the front of her dress. In the next shot, with his hand still on her shoulder, his fingers are now pointing down her back. more
Quotes:
Sidney Young: [to his father] You thought Brad Pitt was a cave in Yorkshire. more
Movie Connections:
References "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993) more
Soundtrack:
Drinks Taste Better When They're Free more

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62 out of 82 people found the following comment useful.
Does exactly what it says on the tin, 27 October 2008
6/10
Author: marcusdean118 from United Kingdom

How To Lose Friends And Alienate People looked like it might be different to the average rom-com we get these days, it looked like it was going to be a smart and satirical look at mainstream Hollywood. It isn't and it wasn't. It's in exactly the same vein as Run Fat Boy Run. I'm not saying that it's a bad film because it isn't and neither is Run Fat Boy Run, but I just felt like I'd seen it all before.

The start was rushed and lacked that flowing feeling. The middle was the best part, with a couple of laugh out loud moments. The end was a walking cliché which came straight from the school of Cameron Crowe (once again not always a bad thing).

Simon Pegg stuck to his normal schtick when he's without Mr. Wright and Mr.Frost, playing the lovable but overall clumsy fish out of water Brit. Jeff Bridges was and still is The Dude so he can do no wrong. Kirsten Dunst stuck to her guns and Megan Fox was thrown in as the so hot at the moment crumpet.

An entertaining film. Not bad. Not great either.

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