A Merry War (1997) ( Keep the Aspidistra Flying ) ( Comstock and Rosemary )

A Merry War (1997) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Alternate Title: Comstock and Rosemary
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Robert Bierman

Written By:
George Orwell
Alan Plater

Actors:
Richard E. Grant ..... Gordon Comstock
Helena Bonham Carter ..... Rosemary
Julian Wadham ..... Ravelston
Jim Carter ..... Erskine
Harriet Walter ..... Julia Comstock
Lesley Vickerage ..... Hermione
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ..... Mrs. Wisbea
Liz Smith ..... Mrs. Meakin
John Clegg ..... McKechnie
Bill Wallis ..... Mr. Cheeseman
Lill Roughley ..... Mrs. Trilling
Dorothea Alexander ..... Old Woman
Peter Stockbridge ..... Old Man
Grant Parsons ..... Beautiful Young Man
Malcolm Sinclair ..... Paul Doring

Synopsis:

In this snappy and clever screen adaptation of George Orwell's 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Richard E. Grant plays Gordon Comstock, a frustrated copywriter in a 1930s London advertising agency. Although he has only had one slim volume of poetry published, this narcissist is convinced that his star is about to ascend to great heights. Much to the dismay of his girlfriend Rosemary (Helena Bonham Carter), a designer at the same firm, Gordon quits his job to become 'a poet and a free man.'

Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter star in this satiric comedy about an advertising man who one day decides he's wasting his life and wants to devote himself to the higher calling of poetry, much to the puzzlement of those around him, while trying to maintain a relationship with a beautiful woman who works in his old office. Based on the novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell.

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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