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