Keep the Aspidistra Flying

November. 20,1997      
Rating:
6.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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