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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

★ 6.0/10•1997•1h 41m•PG•Comedy•Drama•Romance

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.

Alan Plater · Screenplay

Robert Bierman · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 41m
LanguageEN
Release DateNov 20, 1997

Actors

Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Rosemary

Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant

Gordon Comstock

Julian Wadham

Julian Wadham

Ravelston

Jim Carter

Jim Carter

Erskine

Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter

Julia Comstock

Lesley Vickerage

Lesley Vickerage

Hermione

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Mrs. Wisbeach

Liz Smith

Liz Smith

Mrs Meakin

John Clegg

John Clegg

McKechnie

Malcolm Sinclair

Malcolm Sinclair

Paul Doring

Ben Miles

Ben Miles

Ravenscroft Waiter

Dorothy Atkinson

Dorothy Atkinson

Dora

Mark Chapman

Mark Chapman

Court Room Journalist (uncredited)

Lucy Speed

Lucy Speed

Factory Worker

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