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Dec 2, 2003 · It seems that the HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING DVD release was Criterion price to pay to Handmade Films in order to be allowed to release Bruce Robinson's first movie, the cult classic WITHNAIL AND I. Holy Mysteries of the movie deals ! HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING is not a bad movie, it has even great moments principally due to the ...
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Jul 9, 2001 · That poignant film, about two young Englishmen leaving the 1960s, sticks in the mind: Its enlarged language and performance reflected a reticent culture in exceptional, heated conditions. How to Get Ahead takes this quality even further, as if the hothouse life of the ad agency were becoming not anomalous, but English society in extremis.
1 hr 34 min. 6.8 (6,585) How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a satirical black comedy film directed by Bruce Robinson with a screenplay he also wrote. It was released in 1989, starring Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, and Richard Wilson. The movie is set in the advertising industry, and it satirizes the cynicism and dishonesty prevalent in the ...
How to Get Ahead in Advertising. A difficult-to-classify 1989 British film made by director Bruce Robinson and featuring Richard E. Grant (i.e. the team behind Withnail and I ). How to Get Ahead in Advertising is the story of Dennis Dimbleby Bagley, a highly efficient but highly strung advertising executive who is having trouble inventing an ...
May 5, 1989 · After years of capitalizing on the weaknesses of a gullible public, a London advertising executive finds that his worst qualities have literally taken on a life of their own in this scathing satire. Successful copywriter Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) lives a posh life with his lovely wife, Julia (Rachel Ward), in the London suburbs.
Unbalanced advertising executive Denis (Richard E Grant) suffers a crisis of conscience about his profession while trying to create an advert for a new pimple cream, and the stress results in the arrival of a ruthless talking boil on his shoulder that gradually begins to take over, in Bruce Robinson’s black comedy fantasy with Rachel Ward and ...
