How To Get Ahead In Advertising Details

1989

This advertising executive is the best. He can sell anything to any-body. Along comes a pimple cream that promises to put a real blemish on his career.....he can't think of anything. His anxiety takes the form of a growing boil on his neck. When the boil begins to speak he is beyond help. It becomes a battle of wits and he's losing. Read more

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How To Get Ahead In Advertising

This advertising executive is the best. He can sell anything to any-body. Along comes a pimple cream that promises to put a real blemish on his career.....he can't think of anything. His anxiety takes the form of a growing boil on his neck. When the boil begins to speak he is beyond help. It becomes a battle of wits and he's losing.

Starring	Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson
Director	Bruce Robinson
Studio	OPTIMUM
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 29 Jan 2007 Production year: 1989
Format	DVD

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• The very model of a successful '80s man, with a lifestyle to match, advertising executive Dennis Bagley (Grant) has a... read more on Time Out

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  • Posted 04 Nov 2008

• Unsuccessful diatribe on the consumer society.

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  • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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• 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  

  Hilarious

  Ummm, the current radio times review is for a totally different film (The Career Where Two Heads Are Better Than One). If they have since updated it, obviously ignore this bit!!
  
  How to get ahead....is hilarious with a capital HILAR.....it points out all the inconsistencies and bull**** which make up the advertising industry. Check out the scene on the train where R.E Grant talks about how the heroin in the newspaper report 'could have been a pork pie'...CLASSIC!!

  • • A customer from Buckinghamshire, UK
    • Posted 30 Sep 2005 13:39

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  Like finding an unexpected Fiver in a discarded coat pocket.

  This really isn't the type of film I would usually watch, but it came free with a 'Sunday. I only watched it because the hubby was engrossed in the Hitler channel (History channel to the uninitiated) Having nothing better to watch due to having left 3 DVDs un posted for days I settled down to watch it in bed, anticipating boredom. However, it was hilarious. Hubby rushed up the stairs fearing apoplexy. The bit about his granddad and the wallaby will cheer me up in many a future bored moment. Give it a try.

  • • jellypocket from Warrington
    • Posted 03 Sep 2006 18:43

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    This advertising executive is the best. He can sell anything to any-body. Along comes a pimple cream that promises to put a real blemish on his career.....he can't think of anything. His anxiety takes the form of a growing boil on his neck. When the boil begins to speak he is beyond help. It ...