Movies
July, 1989
An Advertising executive charged with promoting a dubious new pimple cream suddenly developsan unattractive boil on his neck. Worse yet, the boil turns out to have a mind of its own, as well as a voice, "like your very own Big Brother," eventually spouting hard-sell slogans ad nauseam. That comic conceit propels How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Warner) from rude hilarity to wretched excess, which makes it pretty much a hit-or-miss satire. Still, writer-director Bruce Robinson gets good...
