Film
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997 · 1h 41m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
- IMDb
- 6.3
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 69%
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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.
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Cast
Helena Bonham Carter
Rosemary
Richard E. Grant
Gordon Comstock
Julian Wadham
Ravelston
Jim Carter
Erskine
Harriet Walter
Julia Comstock
Lesley Vickerage
Hermione
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Wisbeach
Liz Smith
Mrs Meakin
John Clegg
McKechnie
Malcolm Sinclair
Paul Doring
Ben Miles
Ravenscroft Waiter
Dorothy Atkinson
Dora
Mark Chapman
Court Room Journalist (uncredited)
Lucy Speed
Factory Worker
Crew
- Robert BiermanDirector · Executive Producer
- Alan PlaterScreenplay
- George OrwellNovel
- Peter ShawProducer
- John WolstenholmeExecutive Producer
- Giles NuttgensDirector of Photography
- Mike BattOriginal Music Composer
- Bill WrightEditor
- Michelle GuishCasting
Media
Details
- Release date
- November 20, 1997
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- PG
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
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