How to Get Ahead in Advertising
United Kingdom
1988
94 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
Richard E. Grant is the endlessly suave Dennis Bagley, a high-strung advertising executive whose shoulder sprouts an evil, talking boil. The boil speaks only to Bagley, is silent to the rest of the world, and seems to be growing. This caustic satire reunites the talented team behind the cult classic Withnail and I to create a tour de force of verbal jousting and physical comedy.
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Daniel
12Jan10
Huge disappointment. Satire ? Horror movie ? Comedy? If Bruce Robinson wanted to tell us the detrimental effects of our consumer society, it didn't work out. If he wanted to study the symptoms of a nervous breakdown, it also didn't work out. Better watch again Elia Kazan's THE ARRANGEMENT. This one is already forgotten.
Matt Keeley
8Jun09
A great idea, but it just seems to drop off on the ending. Like "Oh, we ran out of film! Better end it!"
Phil Worfel
4Dec08
Almost worth it for the first and the last speeches of the film but a huge disappointment after Withnail and I.
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By Jared Mobarak on November 26, 2008
It is fascinating that after viewing How to Get Ahead in Advertising I began to think of similarities to Terry Gilliam’s adaptation to Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Both are… read review
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