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An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell. The story concerns a girl who joins a local repertory 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.
Jul 21, 1995 · An Awfully Big Adventure: Directed by Mike Newell. With Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong. Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool.
- (3K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Mike Newell
- 1995-07-21
A teenage girl joins a theatre troupe in Liverpool and gets involved in a web of sexual politics and intrigue. She has a dark affair with an actor who turns out to be her father, while another man pursues her with a twisted obsession.
An Awfully Big Adventure. Stella Bradshaw (Georgina Cates) is a pretty acting enthusiast who aspires to become a thespian, but winds up as a gofer at a theater company in Liverpool, England.
- (15)
- Mike Newell
- R
- Alan Rickman
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Sep 22, 1995 · A British drama about a stage-struck girl and a troupe of provincial actors in Liverpool after World War II. The film is based on a novel by Beryl Bainbridge and stars Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman and Georgina Cates.
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An Awfully Big Adventure is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990 and adapted as a movie in 1995. The story was inspired by Bainbridge's own experiences working at the Liverpool Playhouse in her youth.
