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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Directed by
Bruce Robinson
R
1989
1h 35m
Comedy
,
Fantasy
,
and more
6.8
63%
77%
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A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.
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Where to Watch How to Get Ahead in Advertising
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Cast of How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Richard E. Grant
Denis Dimbleby Bagley
Rachel Ward
Julia Bagley
Richard Wilson
John Bristol
Jacqueline Tong
Penny Wheelstock
Susan Wooldridge
Monica
John Shrapnel
Psychiatrist
Hugh Armstrong
Harry Wax
Mick Ford
Richard
Jacqueline Pearce
Maud
Christopher Simon
Waiter
Gino Melvazzi
Waiter
Victor Lucas
Tweedy Man
Dawn Keeler
Tweedy Woman
Kerryann White
Girl in Elevator
Vivienne McKone
Receptionist
Donald Hoath
Businessman on train
John Levitt
Businessman
Gordon Gostelow
Priest
Pip Torrens
Jonathan
Tony Slattery
Basil
Rachel Fielding
Jennifer
Pauline Melville
Sylvia Wallace
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Dr Gatty
Francesca Longrigg
Nurse
Tanveer Ghani
Hospital Doctor
Joanna Mays
Phillis Blokey
Sean Bean
Larry Frisk
Bruce Robinson
The Boil (Voice Only)
Eric Idle
Male Love Bird (voice) (uncredited)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film would be better if it kept all of its images and performances and threw out a lot of the dialogue, which explains at great length things that need no explaining.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
Grant alone makes this eminently worth renting.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
One of the strangest, most outrageous, most bitter, irreverent and bitingly funny satires the movies ever offered.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A dark comedy from Great Britain about the advertising world.
AboutFilm.com
Carlo Cavagna
The difference between Withnail and I and this film is that here, Robinson is trying to deliver a message instead of focusing on his characters. Mistake.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
Thanks to Grant's bravura performance, the film is wickedly enjoyable.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
acerbic but overstated satire
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
trippy
Cinema Siren
Leslie Combemale
This Monty Python-esque freak of a satire is laugh out loud funny, quite the lambast of the advertising industry, and many of the messages in the movie are equally relevant today.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Rob Nelson
The running gag is that [this film about advertising] takes its own high-concept formula of a yuppie's just desserts and whips it up with more tang than any consumer could want.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Is "How To Get Ahead In Advertising" a one-of-a-kind satirical masterpiece? Yes, yes it is.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Quite hysterical, making outrageously good use of Cronenberg-esque body horror effects.
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