How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/Cayman Islands

Feature Film

Director: Robert B. Weide

Writers: Peter Straughan, Toby Young

Cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton

Composer: David Arnold

Cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Megan Fox, Bill Paterson, Max Minghella, Miriam Margolyes

A scruffy, vaguely principled English journalist takes up the offer of a glamorous new job at a swanky New York magazine and proceeds, fighting it at first, to be seduced by the lifestyle that he had previously so vehemently disapproved of, in this diverting, likeable, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny comedy, which, as it progresses, becomes ever more trite and sentimental. Iain.Stott