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An Awfully Big Adventure
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.
Plot
In the film's prologue, a hotelier ushers someone into a bomb shelter during the Liverpool Blitz. We see a brief flashback to a woman leaving her baby in a basement surrounded by flickering candles. Before departing from the house, she quickly drops a string of pearls on her child's pillow, twined around a single rose.
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| author | Beryl Bainbridge Charles Wood |
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| contentLocation | Liverpool |
| director | Mike Newell |
| editor | Jon Gregory |
| events | incest |
| genre | adventure comedy-drama |
| keywords | bomb shelter caesar and cleopatra captain hook detach disillusion f. w. woolworth company haunt homosexuality liverpool blitz lost love peter pan phone booth ptolemy the boy-king ptolemy xiii theos philopator sleep speak speaking clock speech lessons stage manager string surround than the theatre company voice woolworth\'s working class |
| musicBy | Richard Hartley |
| producer | Hilary Dwyer Philip Hinchcliffe |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox BBFC |
| theme | coming-of-age independent |