Richard E. Grant
Denis Dimbleby Bagley
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Mar 29, 1990 · 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.
- (6.6K)
- Comedy, Fantasy
- Bruce Robinson
- 1990-03-29
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.
Pressure from his boss (Richard Wilson) and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's (Richard E. Grant) neck.
- (15)
- Bruce Robinson
- R
- Richard E. Grant
“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.
Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his...
- 2 min
- 21.9K
- Handmade Films
How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Richard E. Grant is the endlessly suave Dennis Bagley, a high-strung advertising executive whose shoulder sprouts an evil, talking boil. The boil speaks only to Bagley, is silent to the rest of the world, and seems to be growing.
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising. Directed by Bruce Robinson • 1988 • United Kingdom, United States. Starring Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson. Richard E. Grant is the endlessly suave Dennis Bagley, a high-strung advertising executive whose shoulder sprouts an evil, talking boil.
