How to Get Ahead in Advertising

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How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1989 film by Bruce Robinson

Film · TMDB

6.3

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

Released: 1989-05-0595 minDir: Bruce RobinsonFantasy, Comedy, DramaBox office: $418,053

▶ Watch trailerStream on: Criterion Channel

Cast

Richard E. Grant as Denis Dimbleby Bagley
Rachel Ward as Julia Bagley
Richard Wilson as John Bristol
Jacqueline Tong as Penny Wheelstock
Susan Wooldridge as Monica
John Shrapnel as Psychiatrist

Themes

satire
advertising

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1980s fantasy comedy films 1980s satirical films 1989 black comedy films 1989 British films 1989 English-language films 1989 films British black comedy films British satirical films English-language black comedy films English-language fantasy comedy films Films about advertising Films about dissociative identity disorder