---
title: 'How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Robert B. Weide'
released: '2008-10-03'
runtime_minutes: 110
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/how-to-lose-friends-alienate-people-2008'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455538/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

2008 · 110 min · Comedy · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

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 is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work upon which it was built.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Robert B. Weide](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-b-weide)
- **Screenplay:** [Peter Straughan](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-straughan)
- **Producer:** [Stephen Woolley](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-woolley), [Elizabeth Karlsen](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-karlsen)
- **Director of Photography:** [Oliver Stapleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/oliver-stapleton)
- **Editor:** [David Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-freeman-3)

## Cast

- [Katherine Parkinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/katherine-parkinson)
- [Gillian Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/gillian-anderson)
- [Kate Winslet](https://cinepixo.com/people/kate-winslet)
- [Jeff Bridges](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeff-bridges)
- [Simon Pegg](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-pegg)
- [Bill Paterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-paterson)
- [Margo Stilley](https://cinepixo.com/people/margo-stilley)
- [Fenella Woolgar](https://cinepixo.com/people/fenella-woolgar)
- [Miriam Margolyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/miriam-margolyes)
- [Ian Bonar](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-bonar)
- [Forbes KB](https://cinepixo.com/people/forbes-kb)
- [James Corden](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-corden)
- [Ashley Madekwe](https://cinepixo.com/people/ashley-madekwe)
- [Chris O'Dowd](https://cinepixo.com/people/chris-o-dowd)
- [Janette Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/janette-scott)

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Official site: http://www.how2losefriends.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/how-to-lose-friends-alienate-people-2008
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