Honest, Decent and True

Representatives of a brewery and yuppie copywriters mix quips in this satire. Derrick O’Connor, Adrian Edmondson. Davina: Juliette Mole. Derek: Gary Oldman. Moonee: Richard E. Grant., Its title dripping with sarcasm, Honest, Decent and True strikes a few more-than-glancing blows at the advertising industry. The scene is a British brewery, where the conservative executive board bemoans a steady loss of revenue. Into this rarefied atmosphere bursts a team of yuppie ad copywriters, who have as little interest in truth as they have in tradition. The hidebound brewery execs are appalled at the near-obscene excesses of the company’s new ad copy–but business suddenly begins to boom. Made for British television, Honest, Decent and True made its American bow on the Arts and Entertainment cable service.