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.
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)
Robert Bierman
Director
Peter Shaw
Producer
Dec 5, 2003
Feb 3, 2008
Dec 12, 2008
Jun 20, 2003
Feb 3, 1989
Jan 1, 1973
Sep 28, 1990
Nov 4, 2023
Feb 26, 1999
Mar 23, 2010
Dec 25, 1993
Sep 22, 2010
Mar 25, 2004
Dec 29, 2004
Apr 22, 2021
Jul 2, 2020
BBC Film
GB
United Kingdom
English