An Awfully Big Adventure R
Stella joins a theatrical troupe and falls for its director, but he does not return her affections.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 4, 2017
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Alan Rickman & Hugh Grant | |
| Performer: | Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Joan Plowright, Peter Firth, Prunella Scales, Rita Tushingham, Alan Cox, Nicola Pagett, Carol Drinkwater, Clive Merrison & Gerard McSorley | |
| Directed by | Mike Newell | |
| Edited by | Jon Gregory | |
| Screenwriting by | Charles Wood | |
| Composition by | Richard Hartley | |
| Produced by | Hilary Heath & Philip Hinchcliffe | |
| Director of Photography: | Dick Pope |
Entertainment Reviews:
36%
56%
Rating: 2/5 --
Wow, is this depressing.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Rating: 4/5 --
Strange compelling film with strong performances
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 2/4 --
The filmmakers appear to be aiming for laughs much of the time, and on this level their efforts fall completely flat.
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Christian Science Monitor
The most startling thing here is Hugh Grant as a De Sade in luvvy's clothing. Grant embroiders him with impeccable details, while writer Charles Wood, adapting Beryl Bainbridge's novel, conveys the basics with admirable economy.
Independent on Sunday
Rating: 2/4 --
As a portrait of the company and its emotional tangles, An Awfully Big Adventure has a gritty authenticity... But as drama and melodrama, the movie stumbles.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: C --
Star Hugh Grant and director Mike Newell reteam in this bitter-sweet backstage melodrama, set in Liverpool after WWII; it's a disasppointing follow-up to their smash comedy hit Four Weddings and a Funeral.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/5 --
Newell at his nastiest
Filmcritic.com
Description by OLDIES.com:
A star-struck young girl is lured into the grown-up world of theater. After having a crush on the company's heartless director and her first sexual encounter with the show's biggest star, young Stella Bradshaw quickly discovers what it takes to make it in the theater.
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