

An Awfully Big Adventure
1995 · Movie · 1h 53m · R
RomanceDramaComedy
"In love, as in life, destiny is always waiting in the wings"
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.
Ratings
IMDb
5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes
40%
Key crew
- Mike NewellDirector
- Charles WoodWriter
- Richard HartleyOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Georgina CatesStella
- Hugh GrantMeredith Potter
- Alan RickmanP.L. O'Hara
- Alun ArmstrongUncle Vernon
- Peter FirthBunny
- Prunella ScalesRose
- Rita TushinghamAunt Lily
- Alan CoxGeoffrey
- Edward PetherbridgeSt.Ives
- Nicola PagettDotty Blundell
- Carol DrinkwaterDawn Allenby
- Clive MerrisonDesmond Fairchild
Stills
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Themes
based on novel or bookenglandliverpool, englandtheatre company1940s























