Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
- Directed by
- Robert Bierman
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 19 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A struggling writer in 1930s London tries to reject consumerist society and remain poor. His girlfriend wants him to take a steady advertising job so they can get married.
wryromanticbittersweetcerebralsatiricalmelancholicunderstatedbookish
What happens
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (released in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe as A Merry War) is a 1997 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Bierman and based on the 1936 novel by George Orwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Plater and was produced by Peter Shaw. The film stars Richard E. Grant and Helena Bonham Carter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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