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An Awfully Big Adventure

In love, as in life, destiny is always waiting in the wings
May 11, 1995 · 1h 53m
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Romance
Drama
Comedy

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Alan Rickman
P.L. O'Hara
Georgina Cates
Stella
Hugh Grant
Meredith Potter
Alun Armstrong
Uncle Vernon
Peter Firth
Bunny
Prunella Scales
Rose
Rita Tushingham
Aunt Lily
Alan Cox
Geoffrey
Directed by Mike Newell

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$4,000,000
Revenue
$851,545
Production
Fine Line Features, British Screen Productions, Portman Productions, BBC
Country
US, GB

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