Keep the Aspidistra Flying(1997)
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.
Movie: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Rosemary
Gordon Comstock
Ravelston
Erskine
Julia Comstock
Hermione
Mrs. Wisbeach
Mrs Meakin
McKechnie
Paul Doring
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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.
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1997-11-20
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