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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

6.0/ 1019971h 41m

ComedyDramaRomance

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.

Directed by Robert Bierman

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Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Rosemary

Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant

Gordon Comstock

Julian Wadham

Julian Wadham

Ravelston

Jim Carter

Jim Carter

Erskine

Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter

Julia Comstock

Lesley Vickerage

Lesley Vickerage

Hermione

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Mrs. Wisbeach

Liz Smith

Liz Smith

Mrs Meakin