How to Lose Friends Alienate People (2008) Simon Pegg Kirsten Dunst Megan Fox Thandie Newton Jeff Bridges

Sidney Young (Pegg) is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamor. 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 it s something of a shock It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding (Bridges) is amused by Young s disruption of a postBAFTA 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 (Fox). Initially helping him out at Sharps is colleague Alison Olsen (Dunst), who has her own secret.