Starring
Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges

Robert B. Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm) directs Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz) as Sidney Young, a London reporter, editor and publisher for the alternative, zero-budget Post-Modern Review magazine, a satirical rag eager to lambast the biggest egos in the entertainment world.

Although he prides himself on his integrity, choosing to gush sycophantically only on his own terms, Sidney is also dazzled by celebrity and beauty. After a disastrous attempt to crash an awards bash, it's something of a shock when Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), the New York-based editor of world famous Sharps magazine, offers him a job!

Sidney arrives in New York with his anarchic nose twitching. Slipping into his alter ego Clark Baxter, for whom no rule was meant to be left unbroken, Sidney plunges head first into the party lifestyle and the religion of celebrity. But all is not what he hoped at Sharps.

He ruffles the feathers of his immediate superior Lawrence Maddox (Danny Huston) and instantly upsets colleague Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). Sidney’s antics (bringing a stripper to the office) and blunders (spitting food in the elevator), and getting drunk at a 4th of July party in the Hamptons, increasingly endanger his reputation and
livelihood.

Labelled by Maddox as Sharps' "very own Idiot Savant, without the Savant," Sidney is not trusted to talk to celebrities, let alone write about them.

The soundtrack includes Joey Ramone, Motorhead and The Killers.

Directed by
Robert B. Weide