Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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

Richard E. Grant

Julian Wadham

Jim Carter

Harriet Walter

Lesley Vickerage

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Liz Smith

John Clegg

Malcolm Sinclair

Ben Miles

Dorothy Atkinson