Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) is a comedy, drama film directed by Robert Bierman rated 6.1/10.

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

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