An Awfully Big Adventure
In love, as in life, destiny is always waiting in the wings
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.
Cast
Georgina Cates
Stella
Hugh Grant
Meredith Potter
Alan Rickman
P.L. O'Hara
Alun Armstrong
Uncle Vernon
Peter Firth
Bunny
Prunella Scales
Rose
Rita Tushingham
Aunt Lily
Alan Cox
Geoffrey
Edward Petherbridge
St.Ives
Nicola Pagett
Dotty Blundell
Carol Drinkwater
Dawn Allenby
Clive Merrison
Desmond Fairchild
Gerard McSorley
George
Ruth McCabe
Grace Bird
James Frain
John Harbour
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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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