How to lose friends and alienate people
Sidney Young (Simon Pegg)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 it's 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 a colleague that will either make him or break him.
Despite the fact that women frequently cross the room and the dance floor to avoid him, Sidney manages to find a friend and confidante in his colleague Alison (Kirsten Dunst) who helps him navigate the New York social scene and deal with his nightmare boss (Jeff Bridges).