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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
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The Career Where Two Heads Are Better Than OnePlot:
Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Awesome premise, writing, and acting; good direction moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard E. Grant | ... | Denis Dimbleby Bagley |
 | Rachel Ward | ... | Julia Bagley |
| Richard Wilson | ... | John Bristol, Bagley's Boss |
| Jacqueline Tong | ... | Penny Wheelstock |
| John Shrapnel | ... | Psychiatrist |
| Susan Wooldridge | ... | Monica |
| 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 (as Kerry Ann White) |
| Vivienne McKone | ... | Sullivan Bristol Receptionist |
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94 minCountry:
UKLanguage:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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London, England, UKMOVIEmeter: 
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Continuity: During the anniversary party, the strap on Julia's dress changes shoulders for one scene. When the dress is on the opposite shoulder, it looks a different colour as well. moreQuotes:
Denis Dimbleby Bagley: My grandfather was caught molesting a wallaby in a private zoo in 1919.Psychiatrist: A wallaby?
Denis Dimbleby Bagley: It may have been a kangaroo. I'm not sure.
Psychiatrist: You mean sexually?
Denis Dimbleby Bagley: I suppose so. He had his hand in its pouch.
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This is a severely underrated film. Richard Grant's more-than-capable slimeball antics are put to a very worthy test in this bitter little polemic about consumerism. It's very British, and very 80's, but its message is still as universal as ever, and the execution is wickedly original, affecting, and cough-out-loud funny.
The only negative point about the movie is the occasionally lax direction towards the end, but that's just a quibble.
Overall, this is definitely very cool, and highly recommended to fans of Withnail and I, Network, and Fight Club who want something nice and bitter at the end of the day.
This would make an awesome play...