Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
United Kingdom · 2008
Rated R · 1h 50m
Director Robert B. Weide
Starring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Megan Fox
Genre Comedy, Romance, Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People".
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White
The result is an initially hilarious picture that grows perplexingly trite as screenwriter Peter Straughan transforms Young's sly observations into assembly-line pap.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Best in show is the divine Gillian Anderson as a powerful celebrity publicist, editing the image of her clients in much the same way this adaptation tames Young's much pricklier book.
People's title proves prophetic, only this time the people being alienated are the suckers in the paying audience.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Possibly the best movie that could be made about Toby Young that isn't rated NC-17.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
Simon Pegg is likably smart and obnoxious as the fish-out-of-water Brit in high-gloss Manhattan, but he's swimming upstream in a feature that substitutes slapstick for scathing wit.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
An embarassingly unfunny, stumblebum adaptation of Toby Young's memoir.
Cleverly titled but noxious British comedy.
Users who liked this film also liked
Silent Witness
A team of forensic pathology experts from a range of disciplines work together to investigate crimes in England.
- United Kingdom • 1996
- Creator Nigel McCrery
- Cast Emilia Fox, David Caves, Alastair Michael
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, Hoopla, fuboTV, Britbox Apple TV Channel
24 Hour Party People
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2002
- Director Michael Winterbottom
- Cast Steve Coogan, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Andy Serkis
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, ScreenPix Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy
Wimbledon
A failed tennis player meets a young woman who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, France, United States • 2004
- Director Richard Loncraine
- Cast Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill, Jon Favreau, Bernard Hill, Eleanor Bron
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Go Fast
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2008
- Director Olivier Van Hoofstadt
- Cast Roschdy Zem, Olivier Gourmet, David Saracino, Jean-Michel Fête, Jil Milan, Catalina Denis
- Genre Drama, Action, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Me Too
(Yo, también)
Why Would You Want to Be Normal?
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain • 2009
- Director Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor
- Cast Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda, Isabel García Lorca, Antonio Naharro, Pedro Álvarez-Ossorio, María Bravo
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Flypaper
Two sets of bank robbers. One very sticky heist.
- ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States • 2011
- Director Rob Minkoff
- Cast Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson, Mekhi Phifer, Matt Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor
- Genre Mystery, Comedy, Crime
- Available on fuboTV, AMC+, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Showtime Apple TV Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Video
The Inbetweeners Movie
This year four boys become men.
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2011
- Director Ben Palmer
- Cast Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Emily Head, Lydia Rose Bewley
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Tubi TV
The Sapphires
Follow your heart. Discover your soul.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia • 2012
- Director Wayne Blair
- Cast Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell, Tory Kittles
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Peacock, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, AMC on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV
Witching & Bitching
(Las brujas de Zugarramurdi)
In this heist film turned horror fest, a gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual -- and in need of a sacrifice.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, France • 2013
- Director Álex de la Iglesia
- Cast Hugo Silva, Gabriel Ángel Delgado, Mario Casas, Carmen Maura, Javier Botet, Carolina Bang
- Genre Comedy, Horror
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Deathgasm
A splatstick film that takes “the devil’s music” literally.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- New Zealand, United States • 2015
- Director Jason Lei Howden
- Cast Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, Sam Berkley, Delaney Tabron, Colin Moy, Jodie Rimmer
- Genre Comedy, Horror, Music
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex
Queen & Slim
A boring first date just turned wild.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, Canada • 2019
- Director Melina Matsoukas
- Cast Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny, Flea, Sturgill Simpson
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Project Wolf Hunting
(늑대사냥)
Police officers fight against dangerous criminals being transferred on a cargo ship bound for Busan, South Korea, in this action-packed thriller.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2022
- Director Kim Hong-sun
- Cast Seo In-guk, Jang Dong-yoon, Park Ho-san, Jung So-min, Ko Chang-seok, Jang Young-nam
- Genre Action & Adventure, Crime, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Screambox Amazon Channel, Hi-YAH, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube