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
Richard E. Grant
Julian Wadham
Jim Carter
Harriet Walter
Lesley Vickerage
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Liz Smith
John Clegg
Malcolm Sinclair
Ben Miles
Dorothy Atkinson
