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
David Bowie
as Vendice Partners
Alan Freeman
as Call-Me-Cobber
Paul Rhys
as Dean Swift
Bruno Tonioli
as Maltese Lodger
Chua Kah Joo
as Dancer
Eve Ferret
as Big Jill
Jess Conrad
as Cappuccino Man
Sylvia Syms
as Cynthia Eve
Colin Jeavons
as Pamphleteer
Sandie Shaw
as Baby Boom's Mother
Ray Davies
as Arthur, Colin's Dad
Graham Fletcher-Cook
as Wizard
Edward Tudor-Pole
as Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)
Slim Gaillard
as Party Singer
Eddie O'Connell
as Colin, Photographer / Narrator
James Fox
as Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
Irene Handl
as Mrs Larkin
Peter-Hugo Daly
as Vern (as Peter Hugo-Daly)
Johnny Shannon
as Saltzman
Bruce Payne
as Flikker
Anita Morris
as Dido Lament
Julian Firth
as The Misery Kid
Ronald Fraser
as Amberley Drove
Tony Hippolyte
as Mr. Cool
Steven Berkoff
as The Fanatic
Carmen Ejogo
as Carmen
Eric Sykes
as Arcade Attendant (uncredited)
Mandy Rice-Davies
as Flora, Colin's Mum
Joseph McKenna
as Fabulous Hoplite
Sade
as Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)
Lionel Blair
as Harry Charms
Gary Beadle
as Johnny Wonder
Robbie Coltrane
as Mario
Zoot Money
as Chez Nobody Barman (as G.B. (Zoot) Money)
Patsy Kensit
as Suzette
