May 11, 1995
113 min
Full-HD

An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

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.

Category

Romance Drama Comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Fine Line Features British Screen Productions Portman Productions BBC

Alan Rickman

P.L. O'Hara

Hugh Grant

Meredith Potter

Georgina Cates

Stella

Alun Armstrong

Uncle Vernon

Peter Firth

Bunny

Prunella Scales

Rose

Rita Tushingham

Aunt Lily

Alan Cox

Geoffrey

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