An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

112 min · Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film

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Directors

Mike Newell

Cast

Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth, Prunella Scales

The story

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.

Catalogue themes and tags

1947, Acting, Age Difference, Coming Of Age, Country Girl, Daydreams, Liverpool, Man-Woman-Relationship, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, Nudity, Performance, Play, Province, Stage, Staging, Theatermilieu, Theatre Director, Theatre Group, Wünsche, sexy, verlieben, Period piece, Drama, Comedy, Film adaptation, Romantic drama, Romance Film

Genres

Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film

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