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.
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09/01/09
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:8
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 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.... [More]
Starring: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong
Director: Bruce Robinson
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Grant alone makes this eminently worth renting.
04/09/07
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01/13/04
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.
12/20/03
One of the strangest, most outrageous, most bitter, irreverent and bitingly funny satires the movies ever offered.
08/14/03
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07/26/02
acerbic but overstated satire
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05/12/01
Top CriticA dark comedy from Great Britain about the advertising world.
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