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An Awfully Big Adventure

Quinzaine 1995 | Feature film | 1 h 52

Liverpool, 1950. Stella Bradshaw never knew her father and was abandoned at an early age by her mother. Now she lives with her Uncle Vernon and Auntie Lil. Uncle Vernon encourages her theatrical aspirations, hoping this will channel her fiery temperament and enormous energy. She gets a job as assistant manager at the Liverpool Playhouse, and falls in love – or imagines she does – with the charismatic actor/manager Meredith Potter. As the company’s production of “Peter Pan” approaches, actor PL O’Hara is summoned back to Liverpool to play Captain Cook. He is intigued by the blossoming Stella, and she loses her virginity to him. But she also loses a little more of her innocence as the company’s somewhat sordid personal dramas are played out in front of her wide open eyes.

Artistic & technical sheet

With
Alan Cox
Alan Rickman
Alun Armstrong
Edward Petherbridge
Georgina Cates
Hugh Grant
Nicola Pagett
Peter Firth
Prunella Scales
Rita Tushingham

Screenplay
Charles Wood, d’après le roman de Beryl Bainbridge

Image
Dick Pope

Sound
Peter Sutton

Editing
Jon Gregory

Music
Richard Hartley

Set decoration
Mark Geraghty

Production : Portman Wolfhound Productions, Londres, Grande-Bretagne Vente à l'étranger : UGC DA International, Neuilly, France

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