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How to get ahead in advertising

Slick and cynical ad man Dennis Bagley can sell shampoo to a bald man, but mounting pressures at work begin to push him over the edge. Teetering hilariously between a nervous breakdown and a bizarre metamorphosis involving an evil twin, can Dennis save himself before it's too late? Features trailer.

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  • "Comment progresser dans la publicité"
  • "HandMade Films presents"
  • "Bruce Robinson's How to get ahead in advertising"
  • "Bruce Robinson's How to get ahead in advertising"@en

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  • "Slick and cynical ad man Dennis Bagley can sell shampoo to a bald man, but mounting pressures at work begin to push him over the edge. Teetering hilariously between a nervous breakdown and a bizarre metamorphosis involving an evil twin, can Dennis save himself before it's too late? Features trailer."@en
  • "Satire of the advertising industry in which a successful but jaded executive begins to question the ethics of his profession. While he is trying to find a way to market a new pimple cream, his disenchantment with the job causes him to develop a bizarre problem."@en
  • ""Nobody dupes consumers better than Dennis Bagley. The very model of success, his genius in crafting seductive ad campaigns has earned him a country estate, countless awards, an admiring boss and a loving wife. However Dennis can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream and is so tormented and filled with self-loathing after years of promoting dubious products that his inner demon, the media-savvy and profiteering side of himself, has manifested itself as a talking pustule with a mind (and a face and a voice) of its own. Dennis quits his job and rebels against society at large, only to find his evil boil growing dominant"--Container."
  • "A ruthless advertising executive experiences creative block when he has to promote a new pimple cream. Stress causes him to sprout a pimple which soon grows into a head with a mind and voice of its own and plans to control the masses."@en
  • "Dennis Bagley (Richard E. Grant) is a successful advertising executive who suddenly rebels against society and the seemingly perfect order of his life."@en
  • "Summary: What Dennis Bagley doesn't know about advertising? Well, it just isn't worth knowing. He can sell anything ... shampoo to a bald man, hamburgers to a vegetarian, you name it. Until he has to come up with an idea for a new pimple cream, and try as he may, Bagley just cannot squeeze an idea out of a pimple. Then suddenly a Boil appears on Bagley's neck, which gets bigger and bigger -- unitl eventually it grows eyes, a nose, a mouth, a head - it's a living, breathing, talking boil ..."@en
  • "In this black comedy, a brilliant young advertising executive's downfall is caused by a pimple cream; he needs a clever new campaign but his mind is a blank."@en
  • "An ad executive having problems coming up with a slogan for an acne product, develops a huge, stress-related boil that begins talking to him."
  • "A burned-out young advertising executive experiences a crisis when a mysterious giant pimple on his neck starts making career decisions for him."@en
  • "British comedy takes on elements of the fantastic as it satirizes the advertisting industry."
  • "Comedia sobre un ejecutivo de la publicidad a quien le comienza a crecer un pequeño diablo en su hombro que solo el puede observar, ya que solo le habla a el y se queda en silencio cuando están en compañía de alguien."
  • "A burned-out young advertising executive experiences crisis when a mysterious giant pimple on his neck starts making career decisions for him."
  • "A burned-out young advertising executive experiences crisis when a mysterious giant pimple on his neck starts making career decisions for him."@en
  • "British comedy takes on elements of the fantastic as it satirizes the advertising industry."@en
  • ""Dennis Dimbleby Bagley (Richard E. Grant) 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 (Rachel Ward), 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...?"--Container."

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  • "Fiction films"
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  • "Comedy"@en
  • "Drama"
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  • "Satirical films"@en
  • "Dark comedy films"
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  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Fantasy films"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
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  • "How to get ahead in advertising"
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