How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (Blu-ray) R

He's across the pond, and out of his depth.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: November 24, 2015
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Olive

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 48,726
Rating: 67/100 -- The makings of an uncompromising, razor sharp satire were gathered together here. That the resulting movie slips off track as much as it does is particularly disappointing.
Apollo Guide
Feb 12, 2009
You'd expect something better from Robert B. Weide. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Dec 15, 2017
This is a fun movie but... it yaps around the ankles of its subject without ever moving in for a decent-sized, satisfying bite. Full Review
The Spectator
Aug 23, 2018
Rating: 2/4 -- Instead of skewering self-important stars and vapid journalists, Friends gets muddled in slapstick and crude humor. Full Review
USA Today
Oct 3, 2008
Rating: 2/5 -- What we have is a comedy that's not that great, a romance that's not that convincing and a movie that's sadly not that special. Now that's how you lose friends and alienate people. Full Review
TheShiznit.co.uk
Oct 14, 2012
Rating: 5/5 -- A fun movie worth checking out. Full Review
Hollywood.com
Nov 20, 2008
It plays like a made-for-CBS redo of The Devil Wears Prada. Full Review
Village Voice
Oct 3, 2008

Product Description:

Toby Young's scathing roman à clef about his stint working for Vanity Fair is rather loosely adapted for the screen in this film of the same name. Young briefly worked for the high-profile magazine in the mid-1990s, and upon his dismissal he penned a snarky memoir that went on to become a major bestseller. Now, in the film version, we have Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, a cocky journalist who is hired by editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) to work for Sharps magazine. Sidney arrives in New York with grand plans to expose the ridiculousness of modern celebrity culture, but Harding forces him to work on puff pieces with fellow writer Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). Sidney refuses to adapt to the glitzy magazine world, and is ostracized for his offensive, sloppy behavior. He and Alison--a frustrated novelist at heart--trade barbs and bond over their terrible jobs, slowly developing a quirky camaraderie. Things take a turn when Sidney meets Sophie Maes (Megan Fox), an ambitious starlet. He becomes determined to get Sophie into bed, no matter the cost, and after several madcap incidences involving crushed Chihuahuas and transsexuals, he finds himself suddenly sucked into the flashy world of Sharps. In danger of losing himself completely, he tries to figure out what it is he really wants, and what he is willing to sacrifice to get it.

Bridges puts in an amusing performance as the lackadaisical Harding, and Gillian Anderson is perfect as the icy P.R. queen. Some might feel Pegg, a hugely talented comedian, was perhaps miscast in this rather straightforward comedy; the film is sharp in places, but doesn't come close to capturing the caustic claws of the book. Rather ironically, a story that takes on the nonsense of Hollywood appears to have become a part of the very machine it meant to mock.

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