Comedy
Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his wife is a senior member.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Crazy People
The Stuff
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
It Should Happen to You
The Good Night
Switch
Thank You for Smoking
Uppfinnaren
Putney Swope
The Soul of Business
The Power
The Great Madcap
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
Christmas in July
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Distracted
Schmeerguntz
AORB
Hook, Line and Sinker
SIMILAR MOVIES
Crazy People
IMDB 5.8 | Apr , 1990
A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.The Stuff
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1985
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!How to Get Ahead in Advertising
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1989
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2006
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.It Should Happen to You
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 1954
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.The Good Night
IMDB 5.3 | Jan , 2007
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.Switch
IMDB 5.9 | May , 1991
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.Thank You for Smoking
IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 2005
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.Uppfinnaren
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1991
"The Inventor" - About "Arbman Development" an inventory company initiated by PR-guru Leon Nordin. AD produced a total of 173 inventions, including a banknote counter that made confetti out of money.Putney Swope
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1969
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.The Soul of Business
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1996
A modern couple from a typical advertisement: young, attractive, and brand-conscious. As they use the products on their breakfast table they begin to quote lines from the relevant advertisemnet. Soon their behavior departs from the accepted advertising norm as they zealously defend each other´s products to the death.The Power
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2017
The Power is changing lives. You will consume The Power. Media messiahs will righteously annihilate fear and discomfort.The Great Madcap
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1949
Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
IMDB 6.5 | Apr , 1985
While trying to expose corruption and greed, television reporter Edison Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.Christmas in July
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1940
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2011
A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.Distracted
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1970
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.Schmeerguntz
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 1965
Schmeerguntz is one long raucous belch in the face of the American Home. A society which hides its animal functions beneath a shiny public surface deserves to have such films as SCHMEERGUNTZ shown everywhere - in every PTA, every Rotary Club, every club in the land. For it is brash enough, brazen enough and funny enough to purge the soul of every harried American married woman.AORB
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2019
The story takes place in a dystopia deprived of freedom of making choices and begins as the protagonist, decides for the first time in his life to escape to Yass Land where any decisions are celebrated. He escapes a fictional land in which the civilians' actions are controlled and monitored by the government. The actor deviates from the controlled community for freedom in YAASS land. As he flees, viewers are given two actions that the actor could take. The story continues on from the actions they choose, leading to different endings.Hook, Line and Sinker
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 1930
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.