An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure

113 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | July 21, 1995

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.

An Awfully Big Adventure

113 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | July 21, 1995

An Awfully Big Adventure
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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Fine Line Features, BBC, British Screen Productions, Portman Productions
Original title An Awfully Big Adventure
Directors Laerke Sigfred Pedersen, Mike Newell
Writers Beryl Bainbridge, Charles Wood

Cast

Alan Rickman

as P.L. O'Hara

Hugh Grant

as Meredith Potter

Georgina Cates

as Stella

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

Gerard McSorley

as George

Ruth McCabe

as Grace Bird

James Frain

as John Harbour

Pat Laffan

as Mr Harcourt

Patti Love

as Mary Deare

Hilary Reynolds

as Babs Osbourne

Tom Hickey

as Freddie Reynalde

Robbie Doolin

as Reporter

Brendan Conroy

as Disley

Johnny Murphy

as One Eye

Peter O'Farrell

as Long John Silver

Agnes Bernelle

as Mrs Ackerly

Larry Murphy

as Inspector

Vicky Curtis

as Ellen

Brian McGrath

as Vicar

Padraig O'Raghallaigh

as GPO Clerk

Nick Grennell

as Actor

Willie Smith

as Empire Stage Manager

Katy O'Donnell

as Young Stella