Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) plays Sidney Young as 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 paparazzi style. Suddenly Sydney is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine. It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) is amused by Young's disruption of a post-party shinanigans disguised and with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen (kirsten dunst), that will either make him or break him.
Pretty good movie for an early fall release. I laughed a few times and the quote of the movie for me was at a post party get together with big shot directors and writers and Sydney strikes up a conversation with:
"In your opinion what's the greatest movie of all time? I'll tell you........it's Con Air."
6/10
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