Overview
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
- Helena Bonham Carter as Rosemary
- Richard E. Grant as Gordon Comstock
- Julian Wadham as Ravelston
- Jim Carter as Erskine
- Harriet Walter as Julia Comstock
- Lesley Vickerage as Hermione
- Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Mrs. Wisbeach
- Liz Smith as Mrs Meakin
- John Clegg as McKechnie
- Malcolm Sinclair as Paul Doring