An Awfully Big Adventure
An Awfully Big Adventure
Release: 1995-05-11
·Runtime: 113m
·★ 6.5
Romance
Drama
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Fine Line Features
British Screen Productions
Portman Productions
BBC
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
Brendan Conroy
as Disley
Johnny Murphy
as One Eye
Peter O'Farrell
as Long John Silver
Agnes Bernelle
as Mrs Ackerly
Brian McGrath
as Vicar
