An Awfully Big Adventure

An Awfully Big Adventure
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mike Newell
Screenplay by	Charles Wood
Based on	An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Produced by	Hilary Heath Philip Hinchcliffe Victor Glynn
Starring	Alan Rickman Hugh Grant Georgina Cates
Cinematography	Dick Pope
Edited by	Jon Gregory
Music by	Richard Hartley
Distributed by	20th Century Fox[1]
Release date	7 April 1995 (1995-04-07)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
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.