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61% Critic Match
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
6.1 / 10• 1997• 1h 41m•NR• English
ComedyDramaRomance
Storyline
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 & Crew
Helena Bonham Carter
Rosemary
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Robert Bierman's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Keep the Aspidistra Flying is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
