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About
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.
Theatrical
Aug 28, 1998
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 1, 1999
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
BBC Film
Cast
Full credits →H
Helena Bonham Carter
Rosemary
R
Richard E. Grant
Gordon Comstock
J
Julian Wadham
Ravelston
J
Jim Carter
Erskine
H
Harriet Walter
Julia Comstock
L
Lesley Vickerage
Hermione
B
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Wisbeach
L
Liz Smith
Mrs Meakin
J
John Clegg
McKechnie
M
Malcolm Sinclair
Paul Doring
B
Ben Miles
Ravenscroft Waiter
D
Dorothy Atkinson
Dora
M
Mark Chapman
Court Room Journalist (uncredited)
L
Lucy Speed
Factory Worker
