How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1989

6.3 (111)

1 hr 35 min

The career where two heads are better than one.

$418,053

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

Top Cast

Richard E. Grant as Denis Dimbleby Bagley

Rachel Ward as Julia Bagley

Richard Wilson as John Bristol

Jacqueline Tong as Penny Wheelstock

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