A Merry War
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Bierman
Richard Dixon
Lucy Speed
Liz Smith
Roy Evans
Barbara Leigh Hunt
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency where his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. He promptly resigns to become "a poet and a free man." Although many of his friends express reservations, Gordon is not to be detered in his determination to write and lodges in a one-room apartment while working in a bookstore. However, the glamour of being a penniless artist wears off quickly when the rejection slips begin to arrive. Not until Gordon experiences real poverty in a grungy working-class district away from his supportive friends does he grow up and make some real life choices.
Director
Robert Bierman
Cast
Richard Dixon
Lucy Speed
Liz Smith
Roy Evans
Barbara Leigh Hunt
Roger Morlidge
Lesley Vickerage
Helena Bonham Carter
Lill Roughley
Lone Vidahl
Barbara Leigh Hunt
Malcolm Sinclair
Richard E. Grant
Eve Ferrett
Julian Wadham
Roland Oliver
Joan Blackman
Derek Smee
Harri Alexander
John Clegg
Jim Carter
Maggie Mccarthy
Ben Miles
Dorothy Atkinson
Dorothea Alexander
Grant Parsons
Harriet Walter
Peter Stockbridge
Steven Crossley
Roger Frost
Bill Wallis
Crew
Dave Allen
Mike Batt
Mike Batt
Mike Batt
Mike Batt
Hayden Bendall
Robert Bierman
Colin Blunstone
Connie Boylan
Lindsey Brunnock
Richard Coles
Paul Conway
Sheila Cullen
Paul Emerson
Lorraine Fennell
Terry Forrestal
Julia Gale
Sarah Greenwood
Sarah Grispo
Michelle Guish
Paul Hamblin
Joyce Herlihy
Richard Hewitt
Catherine Hodgson
Leslie Hodgson
Ian Jackson
Michael Johnson
Ed Jones
James Keast
Kerry Kohler
Marilyn Macdonald
Steve Masters
Ali Moshref
Giles Nuttgens
Giles Nuttgens
George Orwell
Sara Partis
Emma Pill
Alan Plater
Colin Plenty
Patrick Quirk
Patrick Quirke
Philip Robinson
John Sargent
Andre Schmidt
Peter Shaw
Daniel Shepherd
Toby Sherborne
Katie Spencer
Luke Stevenson
Liz West
John Wolstenholme
Bill Wright
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States August 28, 1998
Released in United States Summer August 28, 1998
Released in United States on Video February 9, 1999
Released in United States November 1997
Released in United States June 1998
Shown at London Film Festival (Opening Night) November 6-23, 1997.
Shown at Florida Film Festival (Opening Night) June 12-21, 1998.
Began shooting March 17, 1997.
Completed shooting April 24, 1997.
Limited Release in United States August 28, 1998
Released in United States Summer August 28, 1998
Released in United States on Video February 9, 1999
Released in United States November 1997 (Shown at London Film Festival (Opening Night) November 6-23, 1997.)
Released in United States June 1998 (Shown at Florida Film Festival (Opening Night) June 12-21, 1998.)
