An Awfully Big Adventure
- Released on
Romance, Drama, Comedy
•- Runtime
- 113 mins
(58 votes)
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.
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
- Alan Rickman
- Hugh Grant
- Georgina Cates
- Alun Armstrong
- Peter Firth
- Prunella Scales
- Rita Tushingham
- Alan Cox
- Edward Petherbridge
- Nicola Pagett
- Carol Drinkwater
- Clive Merrison
- Gerard McSorley
- Ruth McCabe
- James Frain
- Pat Laffan
- Patti Love
- Hilary Reynolds
- Tom Hickey
- Robbie Doolin
- Brendan Conroy
- Johnny Murphy
- Peter O'Farrell
- Agnes Bernelle
- Larry Murphy
- Vicky Curtis
- Brian McGrath
- Padraig O'Raghallaigh
- Nick Grennell
- Willie Smith
- Katy O'Donnell
Director
- Mike Newell
Producers
- Philip Hinchcliffe
- Hilary Dwyer