Movie: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

“Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamor. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young’s disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney’s descent into success – his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes. Initially helping him out at Sharps is colleague Alison Olsen, who has her own secret. Wither their friendship? Written by Anonymous”

  • Director: Robert B. Weide
  • Release Date: 3 October 2008 (USA)
  • Run Time: 110 min
  • Country: UK
  • Genre: Comedy , Romance
  • MPAA: Rated R for language, some graphic nudity and brief drug material.

Tagline: Brace yourselves, America.

Trivia: 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.

Goofs: Errors in geography: Sidney’s limo drives westbound past B.B. King’s but the next shot is of Times Square which is to the east.

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