How to Get Ahead in Advertising

(1989)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 113 votes

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Year: 1989

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Bruce Robinson

Cast: Ричард Э. Грант, Рэйчел Уорд, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong, Сьюзен Вулдридж, Джон Шрэпнел, Hugh Armstrong, Мик Форд, Jacqueline Pearce, Кристофер Саймон

Plot

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he's lost his mind. But has he?