An Awfully Big Adventure
Fresh from completing 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', Mike Newell was drawn to the theatrical setting of this Beryl Bainbridge novel set in a repertory theatre in Liverpool in the late 1940s where a young actress falls in love with a heartless stage director, while the dashing leading man is obsessed with her captivating innocence.
Year: 1995
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Peter Firth, Alan Cox
Duration: 110 Minutes
Rating: R - Contains sex scenes.
6/10
Location in store: Drama
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