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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."

Cast

1283

Helena Bonham Carter

as Rosemary

20766

Richard E. Grant

as Gordon Comstock

5473

Julian Wadham

as Ravelston

20070

Jim Carter

as Erskine

17477

Harriet Walter

as Julia Comstock

1219237

Lesley Vickerage

as Hermione

8228

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

as Mrs. Wisbeach

7320

Liz Smith

as Mrs Meakin

1214091

John Clegg

as McKechnie

40660

Malcolm Sinclair

as Paul Doring

11280

Ben Miles

as Ravenscroft Waiter

1221056

Dorothy Atkinson

as Dora

Crew

51950

Robert Bierman

Director

126454

Alan Plater

Screenplay

36656

Sarah Greenwood

Production Design

1376048

Philip Robinson

Art Direction

1312285

James Keast

Costume Design

3079

Giles Nuttgens

Director of Photography

4198353

Diane Chenery-Wickins

Makeup Artist

1449929

Sarah Grispo

Makeup Artist

5489

Michelle Guish

Casting

51950

Robert Bierman

Executive Producer

1547717

John Wolstenholme

Executive Producer

1573640

Bill Wright

Editor

2165837

Peter Shaw

Producer

1416468

Mark Milsome

Focus Puller

15870

George Orwell

Novel

1024855

Mike Batt

Original Music Composer