Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Nov 20, 1997

1h 41m

★ 5.8

Overview

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

BBC Film

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Cast

Rosemary

Helena Bonham Carter

Gordon Comstock

Richard E. Grant

Ravelston

Julian Wadham

Erskine

Jim Carter

Julia Comstock

Harriet Walter

Hermione

Lesley Vickerage

Mrs. Wisbeach

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Mrs Meakin

Liz Smith

McKechnie

John Clegg

Paul Doring

Malcolm Sinclair

Ravenscroft Waiter

Ben Miles

Dora

Dorothy Atkinson

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