Keep the Aspidistra Flying
★ 6.1 · 1997 · 101m · 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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