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Sidney Young (Simon Pegg), a smalltime, bumbling, British celebrity journalist, is hired by an upscale magazine in New York City. In spectacular fashion Sidney enters high society and burns bridges with bosses, peers and superstars. After disrupting one black-tie event by allowing a wild pig to run rampant, Sidney catches the attention of Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), editor of Sharp, and accepts a job with the magazine in New York City. Clayton warns Sidney that he'd better impress and charm everyone he can, if he wants to succeed. Instead, Sidney instantly insults and annoys fellow writer Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). He dares to target the star clients of power publicist Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson). He upsets his direct boss Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston) and tries to make amends by hiring a stripper to dance for Lawrence during a staff meeting. Sidney, of course, doesn't stop there, finding creative ways to annoy nearly everyone. His saving graces: a rising, sexy starlet develops an odd affection for him, and in time, Alison whose friendship with him might be the only thing saving Sidney from torpedoing his career.

A sweetly boorish British tabloid journalist (Simon Pegg) lands a dream job at a trendy New York magazine, where his behavior earns him nothing but contempt—and the grudging compassion of one co-worker (Kirsten Dunst). Writer Peter Straughan fictionalizes Toby Young’s memoir of his stint at Vanity Fair into a romantic comedy pairing Pegg and Dunst like two mismatched socks that look surprisingly nice together. Not every comic idea works, but the movie is often wickedly funny, and it reaches a special plain in the beautifully written (and played) scenes between the two stars. Jeff Bridges glowers as the magazine’s editor, Danny Huston plays a smarmy associate and Gillian Anderson, in a rare comic turn, sinks her teeth into the role of a carnivorous publicist. Go and laugh because Simon Pegg does it again without his over the top comedic skills seen in "Hot Fuzz" or "Shaun of the Dead". He proves here that he can STILL be funny without going over the top. A laughable 4 on my "Go See" scale.