How To Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

Director: Bruce Robinson  Starring: Richard E. Grant  Rachel Ward  
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Product Summary
Publisher: MGM
Format: DVD
UPC: 00027616884442
Buy.com Sku: 40217699
Item#: V5TJWG
Category Keywords: Big Business  Fantasy  Satire  Self-Discovery  Surreal  Theatrical Release 
Rating: 
 
The career where two heads are better than one.
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Hi-fi Stereo, English, French, Spanish
 
Two heads are not necessarily better than one in this "highly entertaining" (The Hollywood Reporter), "blistering" (Los Angeles) satire about a man brought to the edge of insanity by a rival out for control of his career and his body!To hotshot ad exec Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant), people are pathetic sheep to whom he can sell anything except a brand-new pimple cream. Creatively blocked, Dennis becomes so stressed that he sprouts a pimple of his own a pimple that eventually grows into a huge head...with a mind and a voice! Before long, the sassy carbuncle takes over Dennis' life, revealing to him a diabolical plan to control the masses. Now Dennis must find courage deep within himself to save society and himself from the beastly blemishSystem Requirements:Running Time 94 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE
 
"Deliciously witty. Outrageously funny."  Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter
"Brilliant."  Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times

 


Editor's Note

A top-notch advertising executive becomes (Richard E. Grant) fed up in the midst of trying to come up with a pitch for a new pimple cream, chucking his job and rebelling against society at large. The cream ultimately may have come in handy, as a boil develops on his neck--and begins to talk! An inventive, bizarre satire.


Plot Summary

A brilliant ad executive goes berserk trying to think of a clever campaign to sell a new, unglamorous pimple cream, to the extent that his subconscious sprouts a boil, which develops a face, alongside his head.

 
Features
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Original Theatrical Trailer
Widescreen Version
 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: MGM
Release Date: 12/2/2003
Running Time: 94 minutes
Original Release Date: 1989
Catalog ID: 1004364
UPC: 00027616884442
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English
Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Video: Color

Aspect Ratio
1.85:1/ 4:3

 
Cast & Crew
Jacqueline Tong
Rachel Ward
Richard E. Grant
Richard Wilson
Bruce Robinson - Director
Peter Hannan - Director of Photography
David Dundas - Musical Score
Rick Wentworth - Musical Score
Ray Cooper, et al. - Producer
Bruce Robinson - Writer

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone
"...[A] vigorous, cheerfully outrageous British satire....The provocative ADVERTISING adds up to frightful good fun..." 06/01/1989 p.36

New York Times
"...[Robinson] goes off on a new lunatic tangent....An engaging...combination of satire, science-fiction, Freud and domestic farce..." 03/30/1989 p.C16

Los Angeles Times
"...It's cruel, funny, knowing, never less than biting and occasionally brilliant....There is an awful power to Robinson's rhetoric and an irrefutable logic..." 05/05/1989 p.C1

The New York Times 8 of 10
Bruce Robinson goes off on a new lunative tangent in his latest comedy. An engaging combination of satire, science-fiction, Freud and domestic farce. - Vincent Canby
 
James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
It vaults over rationality and tidy manners, over taste and proportion and, for that matter, the rules of dramatic structure. It's nuts, but nuts to an end... As Bagley, Grant is a titanic verbal comedian and an equally audacious physical comedian... Grant's equipment is so perfect for the role that you can't imagine anyone doing it better... - Hal Hanson
 

  
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