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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
· Movie
· 110 min
D
MEANRANK
52/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5020
- IMDb #3690
- Rotten Tomatoes #4343
- Metacritic #4270
- Letterboxd #4856
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4465
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4462
- Metacritic Critics #4554
- Metacritic Audience #3273
- Kinopoisk #3915
- AlloCiné #4745
- Trakt #4592
Every rating
35–65
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 35, highest is Kinopoisk on 65. Critics average 36, everyone else 57.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brash British journalist moves to New York after being hired by a prestigious magazine. He immediately clashes with the culture of celebrity worship and sycophancy, constantly embarrassing himself and his boss with his cynical attempts to get scoops and his pursuit of a famous actress's assistant.
Details
- Director
- Robert B. Weide
- Writer
- Peter Straughan
- Based on
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young
- Released
- 2 October 2008
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $28.0M
- Box office
- $17.3M
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