Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Name: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1997-11-20
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter, Harriet Walter

1997·Comedy·1h 41m

7.0

★

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

england

poet

poverty

writer

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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

Ben Miles

Ravenscroft Waiter

Dorothy Atkinson

Dora

Crew

Mike Batt

Original Music Composer

Giles Nuttgens

Director of Photography

Sarah Greenwood

Production Design

George Orwell

Novel

Popular Reviews

6 reviews

Lucas

6.0★ · 07/18/22

Richard E Grant gives a great performance and he gets plenty of fun dialogue to say. Other than that this isn't a super interesting film, but if you're a Richard E. Grant fan it might be worth a watch

7.0★ · 12/31/25

Vienna

5.0★ · 01/13/25

giu

6.0★ · 08/12/23

julsey_

4.7★ · 08/11/23