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How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a British film of genre Drama directed by Bruce Robinson released in USA on 5 may 1989 with Richard E. Grant

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

How to Get Ahead in Advertising
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Released in USA 5 may 1989
Length 1h34
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Fantasy
Rating67% 3.395883.395883.395883.395883.39588

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. The title is a pun and can be literally taken as "How to Get a Head in Advertising".

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The movie is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley (played by Grant), who suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. Ward plays his long-suffering but sympathetic wife. Richard Wilson plays John Bristol, Bagley's boss.

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