How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. When he accepts a position as a contributing editor for an iconic fashion magazine, his subsequent attempts to ingratiate himself with both his egotistical boss and the superficial celebrities who populate the pages of the magazine prove disastrously hilarious.
1978, England, UK
22 June 1984, Tromsø, Norway
21 November 1980, Scotland, UK
3 June 1945, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
15 July 1973, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 March 1980, Winchester, England, UK
14 December 1938, Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
2 March 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
9 August 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 October 1979, Sligo, Ireland
12 September 1960, Leeds, England, UK
4 December 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 May 1967, Tacoma, Washington, USA
February 12, 2009
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.
November 07, 2008
Just because you are supposed to laugh doesn't mean you are going to laugh.
October 03, 2008
It seems Weide and Pegg were determined to make good on their title How to Lose Friends& Alienate People. You can sum up their results in two words: mission accomplished.
November 20, 2008
A fun movie worth checking out.
October 14, 2012
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.
November 07, 2008
Where the movie succeeds is in its sudden right turns, its willingness to kill a dog, always a bold choice, and its consistent emphasis of the comedy over the romance.
October 03, 2008
It plays like a made-for-CBS redo of The Devil Wears Prada.
March 22, 2009
droseri, ana diastimata asteia, alla en genei filodoksi apopeira aythadeias me eynoyhismenes eilikrineis protheseis kai bretaniko flegma kommeno stis akres gia na horesei se amerikaniko kaloypi romenti, opoy niotheis synehos na leipoyn pragmata
October 31, 2008
I'm told that several of these characters are easily recognisable to insiders, but outside that small coterie there's still a great deal to enjoy about Sidney's fish-out-of-water exploits.
October 03, 2008
Instead of skewering self-important stars and vapid journalists, Friends gets muddled in slapstick and crude humor.
November 12, 2008
... slickly constructed and frequently funny.
October 03, 2008
What was good enough for the printed page -- a comic chronicle of our obsession with the shallow -- has been turned into the object of its own derision.
