How to Get Ahead in Advertising
| How to Get Ahead in Advertising | |
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| Directed by | Bruce Robinson |
| Written by | Bruce Robinson |
| Produced by | David Wimbury |
| Starring | Richard E. Grant Rachel Ward Richard Wilson |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release dates |  May 5, 1989 |
Running time | 94 min |
| Language | English |
How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British film written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward.
Plot
The movie is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley (played by Grant), who suffers a nervous breakdown while working a campaign for pimple cream. Ward plays his long-suffering but sympathetic wife. Richard Wilson plays John Bristol, Bagley's boss.
Bagley has a crisis of conscience about the ethics of advertising. He develops a boil on his left shoulder that he imagines comes to life with a face and voice. The boil takes a ruthless and unscrupulous view of the advertising profession in contrast to Bagley's new-found ethical concerns. Eventually, Bagley decides to have the boil removed in hospital but the boil quickly grows into a replica of Bagley's head (only with a moustache) and crushes Bagley's original head so that it resembles a boil on his left shoulder. The 'boil' is removed from Bagley's right shoulder leaving him to resume his advertising career rejuvenated and cynical.
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