This article is about the film. For the Beryl Bainbridge novel, see An Awfully Big Adventure (novel).
An Awfully Big Adventure
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Mike Newell
Screenplay by
Charles Wood
Based on
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Produced by
Hilary Heath Philip Hinchcliffe Victor Glynn
Starring
Alan Rickman
Hugh Grant
Georgina Cates
Cinematography
Dick Pope
Edited by
Jon Gregory
Music by
Richard Hartley
Distributed by
20th Century Fox[1]
Release date
7 April 1995 (1995-04-07)
Running time
112 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
$4 million
Box office
$2 million[2]
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.
The title is an ironic nod to the original Peter Pan story, in which Peter says, "To die will be an awfully big adventure." Set in 1947, the film was adapted from the Booker Prize-nominated 1989 novel of the same name by Beryl Bainbridge.
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