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An Awfully Big Adventure is a British film of genre Drama directed by Mike Newell released in USA on 21 july 1995 with Alan Rickman
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 21 july 1995
Length 1h52
Directed by Mike Newell
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating58%
An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell. The story focuses on a teenage girl who joins a seedy 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.
The title is an ironic nod to the original Peter Pan story, in which Peter says "To die will be an awfully big adventure." Set during the years following World War II, the film was adapted from the Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name by Beryl Bainbridge.
Synopsis
In the film's prologue, a hotelier ushers a child into a bomb shelter during the Liverpool Blitz. We see a brief flashback to a woman leaving her baby in a basement surrounded by flickering candles. Before departing from the house, she quickly drops a string of pearls on the child's pillow, twined around a single rose.Actors
Alan Rickman
(P.L. O'Hara)
Hugh Grant
(Meredith Potter)
Georgina Cates
(Stella)
Alun Armstrong
(Uncle Vernon)
Peter Firth
(Bunny)
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