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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (released in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe as A Merry War) is a 1997 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Robert Bierman and based on the 1936 novel by George Orwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Plater and was produced by Peter Shaw.
Aug 28, 1998 · Orwell's title, playing on the Labour Party anthem "The Red Flag" with its promise to "keep the red flag flying here", refers to the aspidistra, a type of house-plant popular in the late nineteenth century which by the 1930s had become associated with a sort of shabby-genteel lower-middle-class respectability.
- (1.5K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Robert Bierman
- 1998-08-28
Characters. Literary significance and criticism. Film adaptation. See also. References. External links. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Book cover of a Penguin Books edition. Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London.
- George Orwell
- 1936
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Aug 28, 1998 · Roger Ebert August 28, 1998. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "A Merry War" is the insipid and enigmatic new title for a film released in England as "Keep the Aspidistra Flying." That also may not be an inspired title, but at least it is the title of the famous 1936 novel by George Orwell, and a pun on the communist slogan "Keep ...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying is 19831 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 17347 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Double Teamed but less popular than England Is Mine. Synopsis.
- Robert Bierman
- 101 min
- 12
When successful advertiser Gordon Comstock (Richard E. Grant) abruptly walks away from his career to pursue his dream of being a poet, his path is much more difficult than expected. At first ...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG-13
Synopsis. Grant and Bonham-Carter star as a quirky 1930's couple with very modern ideas in an off-beat tale of love, poetry and garden plants. The romantic comedy, shot entirely on location around London, centres around the unconventional relationship between an eccentric budding poet and his long-suffering girlfriend.
