Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1h 41m
ComedyDramaRomance
6

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.

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)

Crew

Robert Bierman
Director, Executive Producer
Alan Plater
Screenplay
George Orwell
Novel
Bill Wright
Editor
Giles Nuttgens
Director of Photography
John Wolstenholme
Executive Producer
Peter Shaw
Producer
Sarah Greenwood
Production Design
Michelle Guish
Casting
James Keast
Costume Design
Sarah Grispo
Makeup Artist
Diane Chenery-Wickins
Makeup Artist
Mike Batt
Original Music Composer
Mark Milsome
Focus Puller
Philip Robinson
Art Direction

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