Project Detail

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People

Name: How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
Director: Robert B Weide
Genre: Literary Adaptation, Comedy
Released: 2009
Duration: 110 mins

Synopsis

Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. 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 ultra conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock!

It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from loser to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 110 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Robert B Weide 1st Feature
Producer: Gary Smith, Tessa Ross
Co-Producer: Gary Smith, Tessa Ross
Editor: David Freeman
Screenwriter: Peter Straughan, Book: Toby Young
Director of Photography: Oliver Stapleton
Production Designer: John Beard
Composer: David Arnold
Principal cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson, Danny Huston, Jeff Bridges

Genre

Literary Adaptation Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Number 9 Films

Linton House
24 Wells Street
London W1T 4PH
UK

T +44 (0)20 7323 4060

info@number9films.co.uk

Sales Company

Intandem Films

22 Soho Square
London W1D 4NS
UK

T +44 (0)20 7851 3800

info@intandemfilms.com

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www.intandemfilms.com

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