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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
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Release Date:
3 October 2008 (USA)
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Brace yourselves, America. more
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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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DVD Playhouse--March 2009
(From The Hollywood Interview. 10 March 2009, 11:25 PM, PDT)
Huston's Sister-in-Law In Suicide Jump
(From WENN. 28 October 2008, 5:10 AM, PDT)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 10 March 2009, 11:25 PM, PDT)
Huston's Sister-in-Law In Suicide Jump
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Great fun, absorbing and thought provoking. Plenty of fascinating characters.
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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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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.
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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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Sidney Young:
[to his father] You thought Brad Pitt was a cave in Yorkshire.
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References The Day of the Jackal (1973)
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Drinks Taste Better When They're Free
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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.