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Le Pion
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book.
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.
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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
Mark Chapman Court Room Journalist (uncredited)
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