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.
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Cast
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Helena Bonham Carter
Rosemary
Known for
Fight Club
Corpse Bride
Richard E. Grant
Gordon Comstock
Known for
Loki
Logan
Julian Wadham
Ravelston
Known for
The English Patient
Exorcist: The Beginning
Jim Carter
Erskine
Known for
Downton Abbey
Knightfall
Harriet Walter
Julia Comstock
Known for
Silo
The Spanish Princess
Lesley Vickerage
Hermione
Also in
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Moonfleet
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Wisbeach
Known for
Pride and Prejudice
Frenzy
Liz Smith
Mrs Meakin
Known for
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
John Clegg
McKechnie
Known for
Bridget Jones's Diary
Malcolm Sinclair
Paul Doring
Known for
Casino Royale
Andor
Ben Miles
Ravenscroft Waiter
Known for
Andor
Hijack
Dorothy Atkinson
Dora
Known for
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Robert Bierman Director · Alan Plater Screenplay George Orwell Author
Worldwide gross $374K · United States release August 28, 1998 · Produced in United Kingdom
Box office
Worldwide gross
$373,830
Production
BBC Film
Production · Studio
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · November 20, 1997
Theatrical
United States · August 28, 1998
Theatrical
United Kingdom
October 8, 2000 · TV · BBC Two
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