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An Awfully Big Adventure

1995, Movie, R, 113 mins

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A captious coming-of-age story set in post-war Liverpool, AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE chronicles the travails of 16-year-old Stella (Georgina Cates). An odd, introspective girl, Stella insinuates herself into a second-rate theater company so she can indulge her crush on its supercilious, self-loathing artistic director (Hugh Grant). Based on the novel by Beryl Bainbridge, it's a dark and complex film filled with nasty nuance and cruel throwaway moments. The cast is uniformly ex... read more leave a comment
An aspiring actress develops a crush on a mean-spirited director and has her first sexual encounter with an older actor. A look at theatre life after the curtain closes.
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Length: 01:53
Posted: 3/17/2008
It is 1947 England, and virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates -- "Clay Pigeons," "A Soldiers Sweetheart"), who still speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe headed by manipulative director Meredith Potter (Golden Globe-winner Hugh Grant -- "Two Weeks Notice," "Music and Lyrics"). Stella quickly falls for Potter, but he does not return her affections, driving her into the arms of the troupe's arrogant star, P.L. O'Hare (Emmy Award-nominee Alan Rickman -- the "Harry Potter" franchise, "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"). O'Hare eventually takes Stella's virginity as more secrets of the troupe begin to unravel, although she secretly remains devoted to Potter. Directed by Mike Newell ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Four Weddings and a Funeral").
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Length: 01:52:23
Posted: 4/9/2009
Year: 1995
Rated R

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Cast
Hugh Grant: Meredith Potter
Alan Rickman: P.L. O'Hara
Georgina Cates: Stella
Alun Armstrong: Uncle Vernon
Peter Firth: Bunny
Prunella Scales: Rose

 

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