How To Get Ahead in Advertising - Criterion Collection

Rating:
Summary: HEADS UP
Review: Writer-directer Bruce Robinson and Richard E. Grant team up again in this decidedly dark and farcical look at TV advertising. This time Grant is brilliant, driven, young ad-exec Dennis Bagley who is brought down when his mind goes blank while trying to think up a clever campaign for a pimple cream. Rachel Ward is his supportive wife. But her love is not enough to stave off his breakdown. Grant snaps, quits his job and finally, slowly loses his sanity when a small pimple on his neck becomes another head that eventually takes over his life. A head that only he -- and we -- can see. This is a ferocious film of extremes that skewers our narcissistic, media-driven culture. Recommended.

Rating:
Summary: HEADS UP
Review: Writer-directer Bruce Robinson and Richard E. Grant team up again in this decidedly dark and farcical look at TV advertising. This time Grant is brilliant, driven, young ad-exec Dennis Bagley who is brought down when his mind goes blank while trying to think up a clever campaign for a pimple cream. Rachel Ward is his supportive wife. But her love is not enough to stave off his breakdown. Grant snaps, quits his job and finally, slowly loses his sanity when a small pimple on his neck becomes another head that eventually takes over his life. A head that only he -- and we -- can see. This is a ferocious film of extremes that skewers our narcissistic, media-driven culture. Recommended.