Best Advertising Movies
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Best Advertising Movies

Sure, you love getting your Madison Avenue fix watching Mad Men, but which of these advertising movies is your favorite?

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1 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Mad Men's Robert Morse (a.k.a. Bert Cooper) first made his mark in the onscreen advertising world of the '60s with this musical farce. 40 176
2 Kramer vs. Kramer
Workaholic ad exec Dustin Hoffman struggles with single parenthood after his wife (Meryl Streep) leaves him. 38 178
3 What Women Want
Gaining the ability to hear the thoughts of the fairer sex proves useful for advertising hotshot Mel Gibson -- both professionally and personally. 26 198
4 Lost in America
After not getting an agency promotion, Albert Brooks convinces his wife they should hit the road and start over. Of course, chaos ensues. -23 137
5 The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Larger-than-life Lily Tomlin begins to shrink after she's exposed to chemicals her ad man husband's been promoting. -31 133
6 How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Bagley just wants to get ahead by creating the perfect campaign for a pimple cream. But instead he grows another head on his shoulder. -40 104
7 Crazy People
Dudley Moore plays a brilliant ad exec who finds himself institutionalized by his firm after he develops a series of ads that are too truthful. -42 120
8 Putney Swope
Written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. (yes, that Jr.'s dad), this '60s arthouse hit is a wildly irreverent satire about race and advertising. -53 121
9 Roger Dodger
A verbally-gifted ad man (Campbell Scott) takes his teenage nephew (Jesse Eisenberg) under his wing to show him how to be a ladies man. -61 109
10 Bliss
When joyless ad man, Harry Joy, dies of a heart attack, he learns that Hell is just like his former life -- only worse. -63 105