An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure

In love, as in life, destiny is always waiting in the wings

1995113 min6.5 / 10

A coming-of-age drama set in post-war Liverpool where a naive girl's entry into a theatrical world becomes a disorienting education in adult desire, power, and loss of innocence.

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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