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Movie · 1995

An Awfully Big Adventure

Released 11 May 1995 More from 1995 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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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How old were they?

Oldest first
Prunella Scales
as Rose
62
Rita Tushingham
as Aunt Lily
53
Alan Rickman
as P.L. O'Hara
49
Nicola Pagett
as Dotty Blundell
49
Brendan Conroy
as Disley
47
Gerard McSorley
as George
44
James Frain
as John Harbour
27
Alan Cox
as Geoffrey
24
Ruth McCabe
as Grace Bird
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
38years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Prunella Scales — oldest on the call sheet
24Alan Cox — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast
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