How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Top billed cast
Richard E. GrantDenis Dimbleby Bagley
Rachel WardJulia Bagley
Richard WilsonJohn Bristol
Jacqueline TongPenny Wheelstock
Susan WooldridgeMonica
John ShrapnelPsychiatrist
Hugh ArmstrongHarry Wax
Mick FordRichard
Jacqueline PearceMaud- Christopher SimonWaiter
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