An Awfully Big Adventure (Film), released 1995 — adapted from An Awfully Big Adventure by Bainbridge, Beryl.
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.
Starring Georgina Cates, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth.
Directed by Mike Newell.
