- Country: UK
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Release: 1998-08-28
- Director: Robert Bierman
- Writers: Alan Plater , George Orwell
- Language: English
- Stars: Richard E. Grant (I) , Helena Bonham Carter , Julian Wadham , Jim Carter , Harriet Walter , Lesley Vickerage , Barbara Leigh-Hunt , Liz Smith , John Clegg , Bill Wallis
- Runtime: 101 min
- Awards: 1 win
- AKA: Liebe, Kunst und Zimmerpflanzen (Germany) , Keep the Aspidistra Flying (United Kingdom) , Prazeres Londrinos (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , A Merry War (New Zealand) , Sotaisa rakkaus (Finland) , Sólo por amor (Argentina) , Цветы любви (Russian Federation) , La stagione dell'aspidistra (Italy) , A Merry War (Netherlands the) , Una guerra feliz (Spain) , A Merry War (United States of America) , Keep the Aspidistra Flying , Война на шега (Bulgaria) , Comstock and Rosemary , Trzymaj aspidistrę w locie (Poland) , Vidám háború (Hungary)
- 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.
- IMDB:tt0119453
A Merry War Cast · · · ALL
Robert Bierman
Director
Helena Bonham Carter
Rosemary
Richard E. Grant
(I)
Gordon Comstock
Julian Wadham
Ravelston
Jim Carter
Erskine
Harriet Walter
Julia Comstock
Lesley Vickerage
Hermione
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Wisbeach
Liz Smith
Mrs Meakin
John Clegg
McKechnie
Malcolm Sinclair
Paul Doring
Ben Miles
Ravenscroft Waiter
Dorothy Atkinson
Dora