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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

6.0/10

November 20, 1997

101 minutes

Robert Bierman

Comedy Drama Romance

Overview

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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Movie Details

Release Date

November 20, 1997

Runtime

101 minutes

Director

Robert Bierman

Rating

6.0/10

Production Companies

BBC Film

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

John Clegg

McKechnie

Malcolm Sinclair

Paul Doring

Ben Miles

Ravenscroft Waiter

Dorothy Atkinson

Dora

Mark Chapman

Court Room Journalist (uncredited)