 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Starring: Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges
Directed by: Robert B. Weide
Screenplay by: Peter Straughan, Toby Young
Release Date: October 3, 2008
MPAA Rating: R for language, some graphic nudity and brief drug material.
Studio: Paramount Pictures
 Domestic: $2,778,752 (16.1%)
Foreign: $14,507,547 (83.9%)
Total: $17,286,299 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: He's across the pond and out of his debt.
Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock!
It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.
First published in 2001, Toby Young's memoir, How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, charts Young's move from London to New York to become a contributing editor at the highly prestigious magazine Vanity Fair. Fired less than two years later, the memoir hilariously captures Young's failed attempt to take Manhattan by storm.
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