Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)

Comedy
Drama
Romance

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

Rosemary
Helena Bonham Carter
Gordon Comstock
Richard E. Grant
Ravenscroft Waiter
Ben Miles
Dora
Dorothy Atkinson
Ravelston
Julian Wadham
Erskine
Jim Carter
Julia Comstock
Harriet Walter
Hermione
Lesley Vickerage
Mrs. Wisbeach
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs Meakin
Liz Smith
McKechnie
John Clegg
Paul Doring
Malcolm Sinclair

Crew

Director
R Robert Bierman
Author
George Orwell
Screenplay
A Alan Plater
Producer
P Peter Shaw
Music
Mike Batt