"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
Ben Miles
as Ravenscroft Waiter
Dorothy Atkinson
as Dora
Robert Bierman
Director
Alan Plater
Screenplay
Sarah Greenwood
Production Design
Philip Robinson
Art Direction
James Keast
Costume Design
Giles Nuttgens
Director of Photography
Diane Chenery-Wickins
Makeup Artist
Sarah Grispo
Michelle Guish
Casting
Executive Producer
John Wolstenholme
Bill Wright
Editor
Peter Shaw
Producer
Mark Milsome
Focus Puller
George Orwell
Novel
Mike Batt
Original Music Composer