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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Nov 20, 1997 · 1h 41m
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Comedy
Drama
Romance

PLOT

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
Directed by Robert Bierman

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
BBC Film
Country
US, GB

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