The story
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.
Cast & crew
Helena Bonham CarterRosemary
Richard E. GrantGordon Comstock
Julian WadhamRavelston
Jim CarterErskine
Harriet WalterJulia Comstock
Lesley VickerageHermione
Barbara Leigh-HuntMrs. Wisbeach
Liz SmithMrs Meakin
John CleggMcKechnie
Malcolm SinclairPaul Doring
Ben MilesRavenscroft Waiter
Dorothy AtkinsonDoraExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Alan Plater
- Director
- Robert Bierman
- Editor
- Bill Wright
- Director of Photography
- Giles Nuttgens
- Producer
- Peter Shaw
- Original Music Composer
- Mike Batt