How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
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. The film follows a similar storyline, about his five-year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Sharps Magazine. The names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film version (adapted by Peter Straughan) is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work upon which it was built.
Plot
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. In doing so, he momentarily gains Clayton's sympathy, as the latter began his own career through polemics.
Cast
- Ashley Madekwe
- Bill Paterson
- Brian Austin Green
- Chris O'Dowd
- Danny Huston
- Felicity Montagu
- Fenella Woolgar
- Forbes KB
- Gillian Anderson
- Ian Bonar
- James Corden
- Janette Scott
- Jeff Bridges
- Kate Winslet
- Katherine Parkinson
- Kirsten Dunst
- Lisa McAllister
- Margo Stilley
- Max Minghella
- Megan Fox
- Miquel Brown
- Miriam Margolyes
- Simon Pegg
- Thandiwe Newton
More details
| author | Peter Straughan |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Robert B. Weide |
| editor | David Freeman |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | charlotte devaney curse discover divorce even gather high society kill social gathering write |
| musicBy | David Arnold |
| producer | Elizabeth Karlsen Stephen Woolley |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |