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An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell. The story concerns a girl who joins a local repertory 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.
An Awfully Big Adventure is a novel written by Beryl Bainbridge.It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990 [1] and adapted as a movie in 1995. The story was inspired by Bainbridge's own experiences working at the Liverpool Playhouse in her youth. [2]
From 1980 onwards, eight more novels appeared. The 1989 novel, An Awfully Big Adventure, was adapted into a film in 1995, starring Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant. In the 1990s, Bainbridge turned to historical fiction. These novels continued to be popular with critics, but this time, were also commercially successful. [8]
Before “Weddings” was released, Grant took a role in Mike Newell’s next film, the period coming-of-age drama “An Awfully Big Adventure,” as a predatory director at a shabby English ...
In 1995, Cates (then still known as Clare Woodgate) auditioned for the role of Stella in the film An Awfully Big Adventure but was not cast. On returning home, she dyed her hair red and reinvented herself as a 17-year-old Liverpudlian girl called Georgina Cates who had no previous acting experience. When she re-applied for the same role, the ...
Grant also shared that after wrapping up Four Weddings and a Funeral, which would go on to be his breakout role, he worked with the same director on An Awfully Big Adventure, which was a much ...
Jackie, Pablo Larraín’s 2016 portrait of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, was artfully crafted but awfully cold, in part due to the fact that much of it took place immediately post-JFK assassination.
An Awfully Big Adventure: Aunt Lily 1996 The Boy from Mercury: May Cronin 1997 Under the Skin: Mum 1999 Swing: Mags Luxford 2000 Out of Depth: Margaret Nixon 2004 Being Julia: Aunt Carrie 2007 Puffball: Molly 2007 The Hideout: Paula Hardyn 2008 Broken Lines: Rae 2008 Telstar: The Joe Meek Story: Essex Medium 2009 The Calling: Sister Gertrude ...