Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)

11/20/1997 (GB) • 1h 41m

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Top Billed Cast

Richard E. Grant

Gordon Comstock

Julian Wadham

Ravelston

Jim Carter

Erskine

Harriet Walter

Julia Comstock

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Mrs. Wisbeach

Liz Smith

Mrs Meakin

John Clegg

McKechnie


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

england

poet

poverty

writer

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