Absolute Beginners
Absolute Beginners
Release: 1986-04-04
·Runtime: 108m
·★ 5.4
Drama
Music
Romance
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Goldcrest
Palace Pictures
Virgin Vision
Cast
Chua Kah Joo
as Dancer
Eric Sykes
as Arcade Attendant (uncredited)
Sade
as Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)
Sandie Shaw
as Baby Boom's Mother
Ray Davies
as Arthur, Colin's Dad
Gary Beadle
as Johnny Wonder
Ronald Fraser
as Amberley Drove
Slim Gaillard
as Party Singer
Carmen Ejogo
as Carmen
James Fox
as Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
Graham Fletcher-Cook
as Wizard
Anita Morris
as Dido Lament
Paul Rhys
as Dean Swift
Bruno Tonioli
as Maltese Lodger
Joseph McKenna
as Fabulous Hoplite
Edward Tudor-Pole
as Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)
Colin Jeavons
as Pamphleteer
Eve Ferret
as Big Jill
Bruce Payne
as Flikker
Robbie Coltrane
as Mario
Johnny Shannon
as Saltzman
Zoot Money
as Chez Nobody Barman (as G.B. (Zoot) Money)
Eddie O'Connell
as Colin, Photographer / Narrator
Patsy Kensit
as Suzette
Tony Hippolyte
as Mr. Cool
Steven Berkoff
as The Fanatic
Lionel Blair
as Harry Charms
Irene Handl
as Mrs Larkin
Peter-Hugo Daly
as Vern (as Peter Hugo-Daly)
Sylvia Syms
as Cynthia Eve
David Bowie
as Vendice Partners
Mandy Rice-Davies
as Flora, Colin's Mum
Alan Freeman
as Call-Me-Cobber
Julian Firth
as The Misery Kid
Jess Conrad
as Cappuccino Man
