How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
Comedy
MGM / UA  (11/20/2008) 110 mins R

7.1 (7,020 votes)
The movie How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a comedy set in New York city. A somewhat arrogant British outsider finds himself to be a fish out of water when he is given entrée to the fashionable world that he had previously scorned. Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), the young man, is hired by Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), the editor of a very stylish magazine named Sharps. Instead of rising smoothly through the ranks, Sidney proceeds to pile gaffe upon faux pas, antagonizing people like his immediate boss Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston) and celebrity power broker Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson). Along the way, Sidney attempts romance with his colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst), and forms an unlikely friendship with a rising starlet named Sophie Maes (Megan Fox)....

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Cast and Crew
Kelan Pannell  ......  Young Sidney
Janette Scott  ......  Sidney's Mother
Simon Pegg  ......  Sidney Young
Megan Fox  ......  Sophie Maes
Gillian Anderson  ......  Eleanor Johnson
Kelly Jo Charge  ......  Apollo Awards Presenter
Director  .....  Robert B. Weide
Producer  .....  Elizabeth Karlsen; Stephen Woolley; Gary Smith; Courtney Solomon
Writer  .....  Peter Straughan; Toby Young
Musician  .....  David Arnold
Notes
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the competitor magazine's article on Sophie Maes that Sidney reads, the word "epitome" is spelled "epitomy." (more)

Trivia:
The film makes several references to the Coen Brothers' film The Big Lebowski (1998). Sydney accidentally calls Mrs Kowalski "Mrs Lebowski". Also, Maddox is identified by drinking White Russians, the drink of choice for The Dude, played by Jeff Bridges) in "The Big Lebowski". (more)

Filming Locations:
Café de Paris, Coventry Street, Soho, London, England, UK (more)