An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 romance movie directed by Mike Newell, with a running time of 1h 53m. It stars Georgina Cates, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.
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 as Stella
- Hugh Grant as Meredith Potter
- Alan Rickman as P.L. O'Hara
- Alun Armstrong as Uncle Vernon
- Peter Firth as Bunny
- Prunella Scales as Rose
- Rita Tushingham as Aunt Lily
- Alan Cox as Geoffrey
- Edward Petherbridge as St.Ives
- Nicola Pagett as Dotty Blundell
- Carol Drinkwater as Dawn Allenby
- Clive Merrison as Desmond Fairchild