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“HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS –And Alienate People”

Starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Jeff Bridges, Gillian Anderson, Danny Huston

Directed: Robert Weide

SYNOPSIS

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People chronicles Sidney Young’s descent from promising journalist to dismal failure at New York’s most prestigious magazine, Sharps.  He cuts a swathe through Manhattan for all the wrong reasons and his bad manners and vulgar pranks lead to monumental mishaps with hilarious consequences…

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People gleefully evolves into an all-out assault on celebrity culture. This story of a celebrity chasing journalist loser, Sidney Young is your classic Brit in the Big City

Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is a disillusioned but promising Journalist, who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame, glitz and the glamour. His magazine, Post Modern Review, makes fun of the media obsessed stars, so it’s a surprise that Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed, conservative, New York based Sharps magazine. In no time at all, Sidney is hobnobbing with supermodels, filmmakers, and all manner of paparazzi fodder. Thus begins Sidney’s descent into success – his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) – and a love-hate relationship with colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst) that will either make him or break him

In spectacular fashion Sidney burns bridges with his bosses, peers and superstars.The Editor Clayton (Jeff Bridges) warns Sidney that he’d better charm everyone he can, if he wants to succeed. Instead, Sidney instantly insults and annoys fellow writer Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). He dares to target the star clients of power publicist Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson). He upsets his direct boss Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston).

Hilariously funny fish-out-of-water tale, the movie’s plotline details the absolute knack this guy has for saying just the wrong thing at the wrong time, finding creative ways to annoy nearly everyone, losing friends and alienating people. He promptly loses respect at work and fails to make new friends owing to his bad manners and pranks.

Simon Pegg, (Shaun of the dead, Hot Fuzz) & Winner of the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy is one of the most effortlessly likeable actors of this generation, plays Sidney Young. bringing a unique inflection to his comedy.

Sidney does a lot of ignorant and stupid stuff, but Pegg is a natural goofy charmer, with an endearing mischievous twinkle in his eye, heightening the humor. Simon Pegg is almost a throwback to the Chaplin era, a comic buffoon with heart we can’t help but like.

In fact, the whole cast is terrific. Dunst is absolutely winning and the perfect foil for Pegg. Their budding romance is believable, even though on the surface they couldn’t be more different. Jeff Bridges, with long, graying hair, does his best Clayton Harding impression as the sly owner of the glossy gossip magazine. The stunning Megan Fox lives up to her name, and she happens to be very funny, too, as a vapid starlet obsessed with creating an image. The main cast is rounded out by Danny Huston, as Young’s immediate boss, and Gillian Anderson, delicious as the grand dame of PR in New York. -Sampurn Media