How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward
Synopsis:
An advertising hotshot's bête noire is thinking up an ad for pimple cream. He has a nervous breakdown and develops a boil on his shoulder which torments him like a ventriloquist's dummy and eventually takes him over completely.
Review:
Extraordinary satire of heavy metaphoric import, like a cross between David Cronenberg and the Boulting Brothers. It is well staged in its horrifically funny aspects, so as to make the many pertinent barbs of green ideology almost unobtrusive by comparison, and Grant copes manfully with the complex character development from 'utter bastard' to 'conscience stricken hysteric' and finally back to 'utter bastard'.
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward
Synopsis:
An advertising hotshot's bête noire is thinking up an ad for pimple cream. He has a nervous breakdown and develops a boil on his shoulder which torments him like a ventriloquist's dummy and eventually takes him over completely.
Review:
Extraordinary satire of heavy metaphoric import, like a cross between David Cronenberg and the Boulting Brothers. It is well staged in its horrifically funny aspects, so as to make the many pertinent barbs of green ideology almost unobtrusive by comparison, and Grant copes manfully with the complex character development from 'utter bastard' to 'conscience stricken hysteric' and finally back to 'utter bastard'.
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward
Synopsis:
An advertising hotshot's bête noire is thinking up an ad for pimple cream. He has a nervous breakdown and develops a boil on his shoulder which torments him like a ventriloquist's dummy and eventually takes him over completely.
Review:
Extraordinary satire of heavy metaphoric import, like a cross between David Cronenberg and the Boulting Brothers. It is well staged in its horrifically funny aspects, so as to make the many pertinent barbs of green ideology almost unobtrusive by comparison, and Grant copes manfully with the complex character development from 'utter bastard' to 'conscience stricken hysteric' and finally back to 'utter bastard'.