Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Release date: 1997-11-20
Votes: 14
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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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