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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
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- How long is How to Lose Friends & Alienate People?
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is 1 hr 50 min long.
- Who directed How to Lose Friends & Alienate People?
- Robert B. Weide
- Who is Sidney Young in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People?
- Simon Pegg plays Sidney Young in the film.
- What is How to Lose Friends & Alienate People about?
- The film tracks the outrageous escapades of Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), a smalltime, bumbling, British celebrity journalist who is hired by an upscale magazine in New York City. In spectacular fashion Sidney enters high society and burns bridges with bosses, peers and superstars. After disrupting one black-tie event by allowing a wild pig to run rampant, Sidney catches the attention of Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), editor of Sharp, and accepts a job with the magazine in New York City. Clayton warns Sidney that he’d better impress and 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). His saving graces: a rising, sexy starlet (Megan Fox) develops an odd affection for him, and in time, Alison whose friendship with him might be the only thing saving Sidney from torpedoing his career.