An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

6.6/10 113 min Romance Drama Comedy

Overview

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.

Cast

Georgina Cates

Stella

Hugh Grant

Meredith Potter

Alan Rickman

P.L. O'Hara

Alun Armstrong

Uncle Vernon

Peter Firth

Bunny

Prunella Scales

Rose

Rita Tushingham

Aunt Lily

Edward Petherbridge

St.Ives

Nicola Pagett

Dotty Blundell

Carol Drinkwater

Dawn Allenby

Clive Merrison

Desmond Fairchild

Gerard McSorley

George

Ruth McCabe

Grace Bird

James Frain

John Harbour

Pat Laffan

Mr Harcourt

Patti Love

Mary Deare

Hilary Reynolds

Babs Osbourne

Tom Hickey

Freddie Reynalde

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