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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Main Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter, Harriet Walter, Lesley Vickerage, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Liz Smith, John Clegg, Malcolm Sinclair

Director: Robert Bierman

Writer: Alan Plater

Editor: Bill Wright

Cinematographer: Giles Nuttgens

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