How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Based On the book by Toby Young

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a 2008 comedy film based upon Toby Young's 2001 memoir of the same name. The film follows a similar storyline, about his five-year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Sharps Magazine. The names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film version (adapted by Peter Straughan) is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work upon which it was built.

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Release date:

October 3, 2008

Director:

Robert B. Weide

Cast:

Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson

Genre:

Comedy, LGBTQ-related

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Year page:

2008 in adaptations