Sidney is offered a job at Sharps, and moves to New York City, but he quickly earns the scorn of his colleagues, including Alison Olsen ( Kirsten Dunst) and the manager Lawrence Maddox ( Danny Huston), as a result of his rudeness, vulgarity, and general unattractiveness. In doing so, he momentarily gains Clayton's sympathy, as the latter began his own career through polemics. Sidney Young, an aspiring British journalist who runs a failing polemical magazine, attempts to infiltrate a party organized by Clayton Harding ( Jeff Bridges), the CEO of Sharps, one of the most prestigious magazines in the world. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People was released in the UK by Paramount Pictures and in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on 3 October 2008.
Weide, it stars Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Megan Fox and Jeff Bridges, alongside Max Minghella and Margo Stilley. The film version (adapted by Peter Straughan) is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work upon which it was built.ĭirected by Robert B.
The names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film follows a similar storyline, about his five-year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Sharps Magazine.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a 2008 British comedy film based upon Toby Young's 2001 memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.
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