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About Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Alternative titles (from Letterboxd): Sólo por amor, Liebe, Kunst und Zimmerpflanzen, Una guerra feliz, Sotaisa rakkaus, Vidám háború, La stagione dell'aspidistra, A Merry War, Prazeres Londrinos
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying plot from IMDb: "Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money."
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Cast and Characters:
Richard E. Grant as Gordon Comstock
Helena Bonham Carter as Rosemary
Julian Wadham as Ravelston
Jim Carter as Erskine
Harriet Walter as Julia Comstock
Lesley Vickerage as Hermione
Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Mrs. Wisbech (credited as Barbara Leigh Hunt)
Liz Smith as Mrs. Meakin
Dorothy Atkinson as Dora
John Clegg as McKechnie
Bill Wallis as Mr Cheeseman
Lill Roughley as Mrs Trilling
Dorothea Alexander as Old Woman
Peter Stockbridge as Old Man
Grant Parsons as Beautiful young man
Malcolm Sinclair as Paul doring
Derek Smee as Lecturer
Ben Miles as Waiter
Richard Dixon as Head Waiter
Eve Ferret as Barmaid
Directed by Robert Bierman
Screenplay by Alan Plater
Based on Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Produced by Peter Shaw
Cinematography: Giles Nuttgens
Edited by Bill Wright
Music by Mike Batt
Production companies: BBC Films, First Independent Films
Distributed by First Independent Films
Release date: 21 November 1997
Running time: 101 minutes
Box office: $373,830