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Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   21,126 votes
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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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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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MPAA:
Rated R for language, some graphic nudity and brief drug material.
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110 min
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Megan Fox was cast in her part before Transformers (2007) was released. Director Robert B. Weide had hoped he would have been the one credited with uncovering this new talent and so after Transformers (2007) was a big hit and Fox quickly becoming an international sex symbol he remarked he was disappointed, not for her but for the fact he wasn't the one who first brought her to the cinematic stage. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When "La Dolce Vita" is playing in the park, there are no subtitles. Since the film is in Italian, it would be very odd to show the film to an English-speaking language without translation. more
Quotes:
Sidney Young: [to his father] You thought Brad Pitt was a cave in Yorkshire. more
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References Troy (2004) more
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For Reasons Unknown more

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16 out of 26 people found the following comment useful.
This movie is better than its audience, 31 March 2009
8/10
Author: jhseeker from United Kingdom

Oh dear we don't like it when our super-hero love interest develops a brain do we?

Something has happened to people, they have lost the ability to enjoy, a simple feel-good, love story/comedy? Kirsten Dunst is a revelation - funny, sexy and real. I laughed out loud ooh at least five times and I'm not ashamed to say had a tear in my eye a couple of times too. The cast, acting and script is great, I watch a lot of films right across the board and I haven't seen one in this genre that has been as successful. Those who disagree please tell me where I can find some! I'm sure the book is good too but I think you have to judge it on its own merits.

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