How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a comedy film based upon British writer Toby Young's 2001 memoir. It stars Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges and Gillian Anderson its directed by Robert B. Weide of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame. Its to be released in Ireland and UK for October 3, 2008 you can also check out the site for the film here.
British writer Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), who despises the world of celebrity, leads efforts on an alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, that mocks the media attention paid to these stars. When Young is offered a job by Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) at conservative New York based Sharps magazine, he begins his ascent to success. Starting as an outsider, he makes a gradual movement from his former world, soon becoming the confidante of starlet Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) and beginning a relationship with colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson) is the power-hungry publicist pulling all the strings. The events unfolding in Young's life now will either break him or make him.
