Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997

1h 41m

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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.

Writers

Alan Plater(screenplay by)
George Orwell(novel by)
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Richard E. Grant
Gordon Comstock
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Julian Wadham
Ravelston
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Jim Carter
Erskine
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Harriet Walter
Julia Comstock
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Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Wisbeach
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Liz Smith
Mrs Meakin
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John Clegg
McKechnie
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Malcolm Sinclair
Paul Doring
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Ben Miles
Ravenscroft Waiter
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Mark Chapman
Court Room Journalist (uncredited)

Writers

Alan Plater(screenplay by)
George Orwell(novel by)

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Release date

November 20, 1997 (United States)

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Language

English

Production company

BBC Film

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