How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
The career where two heads are better than one.
90 min
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
- Release date
- March 29, 1990
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Music
- David Dundas, Rick Wentworth
- Box office
- $418,053
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Trailer
Cast
- Richard E. Grant as Bagley
- Rachel Ward as Julia
- Richard Wilson as Bristol
- Jacqueline Tong as Penny Wheelstock
- Susan Wooldridge as Monica
- John Shrapnel as Psychiatrist
- Hugh Armstrong as Harry Wax
- Mick Ford as Richard
- Jacqueline Pearce as Maud
- Christopher Simon as Waiter
- Gino Melvazzi as Waiter
- Victor Lucas as Tweedy Man
- Kerryann White as Girl in Elevator
- John Levitt as Businessman
- Gordon Gostelow as Priest
- Pip Torrens as Jonathan
- Tony Slattery as Basil
- Rachel Fielding as Jennifer
- Pauline Melville as Sylvia Wallace
- Roddy Maude-Roxby as Dr Gatty
- Francesca Longrigg as Nurse
- Tanveer Ghani as Hospital Doctor
- Sean Bean as Larry Frisk
- Bruce Robinson as The Boil (voice)
- Eric Idle as Male Love Bird (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Bruce Robinson · Director
- Bruce Robinson · Writer
- David Wimbury · Producer
- David Dundas · Composer
- Rick Wentworth · Composer
- Peter Hannan · Cinematographer
- Alan Strachan · Editor
- Lucy Boulting · Casting director
- Michael Pickwoad · Production designer