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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008

Robert B. Weide

Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Jeff Bridges ...

5.0

5,792

Romance. Comedy A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), an aspiring British journalist who runs a failing polemical magazine, attempts to infiltrate a party organized by Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), the CEO of Sharps, one of the most prestigious magazines in the world. In doing so, he momentarily gains Clayton's sympathy, as the latter began his own career through polemics. Sidney is ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"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"	NEG
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"Pomposity and foolishness abound, but the laughs are few and far between"	NEG
United States	Scott Bowles USA Today	"Instead of skewering self-important stars and vapid journalists, Friends gets muddled in slapstick and crude humor (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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