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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (film)

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert B. Weide
Produced by Stephen Woolley
Elizabeth Karlsen
Screenplay by Peter Straughan
Based on How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
by Toby Young
Starring Simon Pegg
Kirsten Dunst
Danny Huston
Gillian Anderson
Megan Fox
Max Minghella
Jeff Bridges
Margo Stilley
Music by David Arnold
Cinematography Oliver Stapleton
Edited by David Freeman
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
(United Kingdom)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(United States)
Intandem Films
(Australia)
Release date
  • 3 October 2008 (2008-10-03) (United Kingdom)
Running time
111 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $28 million
Box office $19,151,797

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a 2008 British comedy film based upon Toby Young's 2001 memoir of the same name. The film follows a similar storyline, about his five-year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Sharps Magazine. The names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film version (adapted by Peter Straughan) is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work upon which it was built. It was distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and in the United Kingdom by Paramount Pictures and Channel Four Films (the former also distributed in Australia).

The film was directed by Robert B. Weide and stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, Kirsten Dunst as Alison Olsen, Jeff Bridges as Clayton Harding, Danny Huston as Lawrence Maddox, Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Johnson, and Megan Fox as Sophie Maes. The cast also includes Max Minghella and Margo Stilley. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People was released in both the United States and United Kingdom on 3 October 2008.

Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is a petty aspiring English journalist who works for a left-wing radical magazine. Following an incident at a party where Sidney accidentally lets a pig loose, he is hired to work for an affluent magazine in New York City. He is hired by Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), editor of Sharps magazine, a man Sidney had previously satirised in his own magazine.


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