How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Jan 1, 1989
Running Time: 98 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: United States
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A young ad executive cannot come up with a slogan for a new product. The stress is beginning to destroy his life, causing him to grow a talking boil on his shoulder.
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Dennis Dimbleby Bagley
Julia--Bagley's Wife
Bristol
Penny Wheelstock
Psychiatrist
Richard
Mrs Wallace
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December 8, 2000
Steve Martin communed with his nose in Roxanne, Michael Caine lectured his severed fingers in The Hand, and in the upcoming Me and Him Griffin Dunne chats up his penis. But not until this vigorous, cheerfully outrageous British satire has a character ever argued with a nasty boil on his neck. Worse, the boil sasses back.

The pustule in question has risen on Dennis Bagley, a London advertising whiz who harvests a fortune for his clients by playing on the public's fear of dandruff, piles, bad… Continued