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 and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
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Classical in form, intimate, character-led and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Georgina CatesStella
- Hugh GrantMeredith Potter
- Alan RickmanP.L. O'Hara
- Alun ArmstrongUncle Vernon
- Peter FirthBunny
- Prunella ScalesRose
- Rita TushinghamAunt Lily
- Alan CoxGeoffrey
- Edward PetherbridgeSt.Ives
- Nicola PagettDotty Blundell
Crew
- Mike NewellDirector
- Charles WoodWriter
- Beryl BainbridgeNovel
- Dick PopeDirector of Photography
- Richard HartleyOriginal Music Composer
- Jon GregoryEditor
- Philip HinchcliffeProducer
- Hilary DwyerProducer
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