An Awfully Big Adventure (1994)
- Starring:
- Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, (more)
- Director(s):
- Mike Newell
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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A misleading title and a different type of performance from Hugh Grant are two of the offbeat features of An Awfully Big Adventure. Virginal theatre fanatic Stella (Georgina Cates), who speaks with her dead mother by phone, joins a theatrical troupe in 1947 England headed by manipulative director Meredith Potter (Grant). Stella quickly falls for Potter, but he doesn't return her affections, driving her into the arms of the troupe's arrogant star, P.L. O'Hara (Alan Rickman). O'Hara eventually takes Stella's virginity, although she secretly remains devoted to Potter. More secrets of the troupe are revealed at the story's climax, although nothing is really resolved to any of the characters' satisfaction. Not quite a satire and not quite a drama, An Awfully Big Adventure is occasionally mean-spirited and frequently dour, which may just be a result of its subject matter. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 113 mins
Complete Cast:
- Alan Rickman - P.L. O'Hara
- Georgina Cates - Stella
- Peter Firth - Bunny
- Agnes Bernelle - Mrs Ackerly
- Carol Drinkwater - Dawn Allenby
- Earl Gill - Band
- Chris Kenevey - Band
- Patti Love - Mary Deare
- Brian McGrath - Vicar
- Johnny Murphy - One Eye
- Nicola Pagett - Dotty Blundell
- Hilary Reynolds - Babs Osbourne
- Brendan Conroy - Disley
- Willie Smith - Empire Stage Manager
- Hugh Grant - Meredith Potter
- Alun Armstrong - Uncle Vernon
- Prunella Scales - Rose
- Alan Cox - Geoffrey
- John Drummond - Band
- Tom Hickey - Freddie Reynalde
- Pat Laffan - Mr Harcourt
- Ruth McCabe - Grace Bird
- Clive Merrison - Desmond Fairchild
- Peter O'Farrell - Long John Silver
- Edward Petherbridge - St. Ives
- Rita Tushingham - Aunt Lily
- Gerard McSorley - George
- James Frain - John Harbour
- Director(s):
- Mike Newell
- Writer(s):
- Charles Wood
- Producer(s):
- Philip Hinchcliffe, Hilary Heath
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Situations)
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