Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)

Directors

Robert Bierman

Cast

Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter

The story

Gordon Comstock is a successful copywriter at a flourishing advertising firm in 1930s London. His girlfriend and co-worker, Rosemary, fears he may never settle down with her when he suddenly disavows his middle-class lifestyle and quits his paying job for the artistic satisfaction of writing poetry. Gordon's friend and publisher Ravelston, a wealthy self-described socialist, arranges a job at a bookstore and a room in a boardinghouse for him, but Gordon seethes about the bourgeoisie values of his landlady Mrs.

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