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.
An Awfully Big AdventureRomance, Drama, Comedy
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
- Edward Petherbridge — St.Ives
- Nicola Pagett — Dotty Blundell
- Carol Drinkwater — Dawn Allenby
- Clive Merrison — Desmond Fairchild
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