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How To Get Ahead In Advertising
- 1989 film
Satire on advertising, starring Richard E. Grant as an ad man in the midst of a breakdown. Also features Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong, Susan Wooldridge, John Shrapnel and more.
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Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1989
- Stars
- Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong, Susan Wooldridge, John Shrapnel, Hugh Armstrong, Mick Ford and more
- Writer
- Bruce Robinson
- Director
- Bruce Robinson
- Producers
- David Wimbury, George Harrison, Denis O'Brien and Ray Cooper
- Company
Advertising executive Dennis Bagley is one of the profession's high-fliers. A ruthless streak and a great creative mind combine to make a man who can sell nuclear arms to pacifists. In short, anything to anyone.
There's just one problem. Skincare. Boils, spots, pimples: whatever one wishes to call them, they just seem to stultify Bagley's brain. Far from coming up with winning slogans and catchy jingles to enthral the masses, he can barely come up with an idea worthy of writing down on paper.
It is there that Dennis's problems begin. Already overworked, his inability to come up with a whisper of a campaign for a new spot cream is playing increasingly heavily on his mind. With both his boss and the client demanding results, he heads home for the night. And there, on the train, somewhere just outside Datchet, he snaps.
Advertising. It's a plague. A monstrous carbuncle on the face of the planet. Selling us things we don't want, and things we certainly don't need. Something must be done. And he's just the man to do it. But when he develops a boil of his very own, Dennis embarks on his darkest path yet. It begins to speak. Taunting him. Goading. Driving him slowly crazy.
But what can an ad man do when everybody stops believing him?
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Additional details
- UK certificate
- 15
- Duration
- 94 minutes
- UK release
- Thursday 30th March 1989
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- Most recent repeats
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- Wednesday 17th January 2024 at 1:50am on Film4
- Friday 1st April 2022 at 1:35am on Film4
- Wednesday 11th August 2021 at 1:50am on Film4