Category: 20
All Genres: Romance, Comedy
Release Year: 1997
Country: UK
Runtime: 101
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Robert Bierman
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:

  • Get a little savage.


    • Writing by: George Orwell – novel
    Alan Plater – screenplay

    Produced by: Robert Bierman – executive producer
    Sara Giles – associate producer
    Joyce Herlihy – associate producer
    Peter Shaw – producer
    John Wolstenholme – executive producer

    Cast: Richard E. Grant – Gordon Comstock
    Helena Bonham Carter – Rosemary
    Julian Wadham – Ravelston
    Jim Carter – Erskine
    Harriet Walter – Julia Comstock
    Lesley Vickerage – Hermione
    Barbara Leigh-Hunt – Mrs. Wisbeach (as Barbara Leigh Hunt)
    Liz Smith – Mrs. Meakin
    John Clegg – McKechnie
    Bill Wallis – Mr. Cheeseman
    Lill Roughley – Mrs. Trilling

    Music: Mike Batt
    Official Website: Visit Website


    Plot Outline: Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius…
    Plot: 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.

    Movie Quotes: Gordon Comstock: When you're lying in the gutter, you've got nowhere to fall.


    Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Very Special Thanks To: Bert D'Angelo's Daughter

    Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: There is a suitcase beside Gordon as he sits on the park bench. When he leaves the park with Rosemary, Gordon does not carry the suitcase with him although it is no longer beside the bench.

    Trivia: There are 1 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • Although the story takes place in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, many scenes were filmed in the Belgian city of Antwerp. This was because Rotterdam has very little buildings left following heavy bombing during the Second World War.