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- Yes. This film definitely hit its fair share of bona-fide bum-notes, but, generally speaking, its cynical and sneering look at the advertising business was quite a frank, and, yes, even refreshing one, at times.
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“How to Get Ahead in Advertising” is a sour, mean-spirited attack on advertising, starring an actor who can be repulsive and hateful without even trying. Those are the good things about it. The film’s weakness is that it hates advertising so much it can’t shut up about it.
Plot. The film is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley (played by Grant), who suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. Rachel Ward plays his long-suffering but sympathetic wife, Julia Bagley.
How to Get Ahead in Advertising: Directed by Bruce Robinson. With Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong. A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.
- (6.7K)
- Comedy, Fantasy
- Bruce Robinson
- 1990-03-29
NEW. Pressure from his boss (Richard Wilson) and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's (Richard E. Grant) neck. TOP CRITIC. The film would be better if it kept all of ...
- (15)
- Bruce Robinson
- R
- Richard E. Grant
How to Get Ahead in Advertising The best way to get ahead in advertising is to know the devil. Unfortunately, since the frazzled ad man in this comedy isn't acquitted with Lucifer, he will have to get a head literally.
Jul 9, 2001 · O ur ad-inundated culture has had in it for decades a contrapuntal vein of satire—in fiction, plays, and films—to the point that satire on advertising is now a component of our advertising culture. What has changed, however, in recent years, is the focus of the satire.
How to Get Ahead in Advertising Review. A thirtysomething advertising executive, Dennis Bagley (Grant), rebels against his cynical profession, ridding his house of anything touched by advertising.
