Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

101 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Nov. 20, 1997

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.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

101 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Nov. 20, 1997

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers BBC Films
Original title Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Directors Robert Bierman
Writers Alan Plater, George Orwell

Cast

Helena Bonham Carter

as Rosemary

Richard E. Grant

as Gordon Comstock

Julian Wadham

as Ravelston

Jim Carter

as Erskine

Harriet Walter

as Julia Comstock

Lesley Vickerage

as Hermione

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

as Mrs. Wisbeach

Liz Smith

as Mrs Meakin

John Clegg

as McKechnie

Malcolm Sinclair

as Paul Doring

Ben Miles

as Ravenscroft Waiter