How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is an upcoming comedy film based upon British writer Toby Young’s 2001 memoir, also called How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. The film will follow a similar storyline, about his five year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at Vanity Fair magazine — though 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 it was built upon.

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The Lucky Ones is a 2008 film directed by Neil Burger and starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Peña. Neil Burger and Dirk Wittenborn are the screenwriters. The story revolves around three soldiers — Collee (Rachel McAdams), T.K. (Michael Pena) and Cheever (Tim Robbins) — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S., with Collee on a mission to bring her boyfriend’s guitar back to his family because he saved her life, T.K. seeking confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury that threatens his sexual function and middle-aged Cheever planning to hit the casinos in a desperate effort to pay for his son’s college tuition.

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Emma Stone @ Premiere of “The House Bunny” August 20, 2008

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Charlize Theron and Will Smith @ Premiere of Hancock in Japan

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Anna Faris @ Premiere of her new movie “The House Bunny” August 20, 2008

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