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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Released: November 20, 1997 (1997)
Runtime: 101 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Liz Smith as Mrs Meakin
Age at release: 75
- John Clegg as McKechnie
Age at release: 63
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Mrs. Wisbeach
Age at release: 61
- Jim Carter as Erskine
Age at release: 49
- Harriet Walter as Julia Comstock
Age at release: 47
- Malcolm Sinclair as Paul Doring
Age at release: 47
- Richard E. Grant as Gordon Comstock
Age at release: 40
- Julian Wadham as Ravelston
Age at release: 39
- Lesley Vickerage as Hermione
Age at release: 36
- Helena Bonham Carter as Rosemary
Age at release: 31
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- Mark Chapman as Court Room Journalist (uncredited)
Age at release: 42
- Ben Miles as Ravenscroft Waiter
Age at release: 31
- Dorothy Atkinson as Dora
Age at release: 31