An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMike Newell
Screenplay byCharles Wood
Based onAn Awfully Big Adventure
by Beryl Bainbridge
Produced byHilary Heath
Philip Hinchcliffe
Victor Glynn
Starring
CinematographyDick Pope
Edited byJon Gregory
Music byRichard Hartley
Distributed by20th Century Fox[1]
Release date
  • 7 April 1995 (1995-04-07)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4 million
Box office$2 million[2]

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.

The title is an ironic nod to the original Peter Pan story, in which Peter says, "To die will be an awfully big adventure." Set in 1947, the film was adapted from the Booker Prize-nominated 1989 novel of the same name by Beryl Bainbridge.

  1. ^ "An Awfully Big Adventure (15)". BBFC. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Planet Hollywood". Screen International. 30 August 1996. pp. 14–15.