A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo" pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come up with a campaign for a new-fangled sanitary napkin called Vorcan. The advertising satire follows the New York firm of Cranston & Co. as they fight rival Hoffman & Partners. Cranston fires his creative director which puts a young copywriter with a literature degree on the front line, even though he doesn't want to be. The contest comes down to a schmaltzy campaign by Hoffman with music by Air Supply that uses the tagline "Vorcan: your own personal air supply." or a more down to earth campaign from Cranston of "The pad ain't bad!"
Writing
The actual tagline battle: 'Your own personal Air Supply' vs 'The pad ain't bad!'
Acting
Robert Klein's magnificently sweaty desperation as a failing agency boss.
Director
Eric Weber
Robert Klein
Tom Cranston
Larry Pine
Peter Haverford
Paul Lazar
Mitchell Mitnick
Randy Pearlstein
Ken Tuttle
Ingrid Rogers
Anita Tanner
Joelle Carter
Heidi Wilson
Eben Moore
Rodney De Mole
Tony Hendra
George Parkyn
Steve Carell
United Standards 2
Tanya Pohlkotte
Anna
Edoardo Ballerini
Johnny Akida
Ronald Guttman
Barry Hoffman
Irma St. Paule
Miss Volney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Eric Weber never made another feature; this film essentially vanished until internet deep-divers resurrected it as a cult curio.
Released months before Office Space and American Beauty, Suits predicted the coming anti-corporate comedy wave but got buried by its own obscurity.
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