Sidney Young 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 its 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. Initially helping him out at Sharps is colleague Alison Olsen, who has her own secret. —IMDb
It´s not so bad as I imagined. Let says it works. It has a mix of British and American humour (American "humour"), it shows very well Hollywood´s little world and makes lot of references to the great La Dolce Vita, the best film about "celebrity journalism". Sophie Maes crossing the swimming pool with La Dolce Vita´s theme song palying in the background is, for me, better than Sylvia in the Fontana di Trevi Enlarged.
I love Simon Pegg, Gillian Anderson, Jeff Bridges, Thandie Newton and Chris O'Dowd....this just really didn't work that well. Some okay moments.
Emmy-winning American director Robert B. Weide (“Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth” & “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) teams-up with English screenwriter Peter Straughan (“Sixty Six” & “Mrs. Ratcliffe’s… read review