23 July 2008 @ 9:08How to Lose Friends & Alienate People - trailer

Simon Pegg and Jeff Bridges star in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. That sounds like a great combination to me. Synopsis, trailer, and stills below.

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 diametrically opposed 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 derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.

Directed by: Robert B. Weide

Starring: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, Megan Fox, Danny Huston, and Gillian Anderson

Release date: October 3, 2008

Stills from How to Lose Friends & Alienate People below:

I love how the letter E on Sidney Young’s shirt changes to a B in some shots — “Young Dumb and Full of Come” or “Young Dumb and Full of Comb”. Take your pick.