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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

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Reviews Counted: 13

Fresh: 7

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 6.2/10

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.... 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. [More]

Starring: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong

Starring: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong

Director: Bruce Robinson

Director: Bruce Robinson
Screenwriter: Bruce Robinson
Producer: George Harrison, Denis O'Brien, David Wimbury
Composer: Rick Wentworth, David Dundas

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Grant alone makes this eminently worth renting.

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Rob Gonsalves
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Derek Adams
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Cole Smithey
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Jake Euker
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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

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01/13/04
Michael Dequina
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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.

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12/20/03
Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm.com

One of the strangest, most outrageous, most bitter, irreverent and bitingly funny satires the movies ever offered.

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Ken Hanke
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Vincent Canby
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trippy

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Karina Montgomery
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Scott Weinberg
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acerbic but overstated satire

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James Kendrick
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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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A dark comedy from Great Britain about the advertising world.

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Dennis Schwartz
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