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An Awfully Big Adventure

1995, Movie, R, 113 mins

An Awfully Big Adventure: Review

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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 excellent: Grant is perfectly hateful (as he needs to be), Alan Rickman is fine as an unrepentant ham (not much of a stretch), and young Clare Woodgate -- who posed as a first-time actress named Georgina Cates to snag the part slated for an unknown -- gives Stella a prickly authenticity. leave a comment
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