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An Awfully Big Adventure

  • Romance
  • Drama
  • Comedy

May 11, 1995 (US)

1h 53m

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

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 a...

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