An Awfully Big Adventure

A 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell. The story focuses on a teenage girl who joins a seedy theatre troupe in Liverpool. 'An Awafully Big Adventure' is the ironic title nod to the original Peter Pan story, in which Peter says "To die will be an awfully big adventure".Set right after World War II, a 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.