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An Awfully Big Adventure(1995)
Status: Released
Date: 1995-05-11
67%
62 Votes
Time: 1h 53m
In love, as in life, destiny is always waiting in the wings
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
Budget: $4,000,000.00
Revenue: $851,545.00
ProductionCompanies: 
British Screen Productions
Portman Productions
Movie: An Awfully Big Adventure
Top 10 Billed Cast
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
Edward Petherbridge
St.Ives
Nicola Pagett
Dotty Blundell
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