An Awfully Big Adventure
May 11, 1995 | IMDB 6.7
113 min Watch NowRomance, Drama, Comedy
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby 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 and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
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