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
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
Ben Miles
as Ravenscroft Waiter
Dorothy Atkinson
as Dora
