

An Awfully Big Adventure
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1995-05-11 • 1h 53m
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.
- Directors
- Mike Newell
- Writters
- Charles Wood
- Editors
- Jon Gregory

An Awfully Big Adventure
Visit website1995-05-11 • 1h 53m
6.7/10 • 61
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.
- Directors
- Mike Newell
- Writters
- Charles Wood
- Editors
- Jon Gregory
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsAlan 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
Edward Petherbridge
St.Ives
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $4,000,000.00
- Revenue
- $851,545.00
- Keywords
- based on novel or bookenglandliverpool, englandtheatre company1940s