Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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.

• Director: Robert Bierman
• Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter, Harriet Walter, Lesley Vickerage, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Liz Smith