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Keep the Aspidistra Flying(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-11-20
57%
16 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Top 10 Billed 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
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