An Awfully Big Adventure |  | Director: Mike Newell
Actors: Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong, Peter Firth
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  37 reviews
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DN7858D
ISBN: 0780650514
UPC: 794043785825
EAN: 9780780650510
Theatrical Release Date: July 21, 1995
Release Date: April 19, 2005
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Product Description
Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman star in director Mike Newell's (Four Weddings and a Funeral) engaging comedy about a star-struck young girl lured into the grown-up world of the theater. From a crush on the company's heartless director to her first sexual encounter with the show's biggest star young Stella Bradshaw quickly discovers what it takes to make it in the theater. An intriguing blend of comedy and passion this provocative story is a hilarious look at what really goes on when the lights go down.Running Time: 113 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794043785825
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 A Must Have for Alan Rickman Fans March 15, 2009
Calvina (Vienna, Austria)
Thankfully this movie was released on DVD. I owned the Video Cassette but am happy to own the DVD version now.
 An Awfully Big Adventure January 14, 2009
Kimberly Matthews
This movie is definitely interesting! First off, it's fun to see Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman in their earlier years. This movie is darkly humorous. The reason the movie is worth watching is for the ending. What a shocker! It's truly jaw-dropping and changes the whole tone of the movie. However, the british accents are thick and the voices a tad low, so I would highly recommend turning on sub-titles. It's a good movie, and it is definitely worth watching.
 Some more Rickman, please... January 18, 2008
D. Hansen (High in the mountains of Wyoming)
Like others have said, I was surprised that it was not a light-hearted comedy and disappointed that Alan Rickman's character doesn't arrive until halfway through; but it was wonderfully cast and though very disturbing, I feel it needs to watched again.
A very quiet classic. December 15, 2007
Catana (Eastern Seaboard)
I've loved this movie for years, and bought the DVD as soon as it was released. As other reviewers have said, the cover copy is completely misleading. It's a tragedy of sad, warped lives, with bits of humor, some of it black, thrown into the mix. To get an idea of Georgina Cates's amazing versatility, I recommend Clay Pigeons.
An Awfully Big Role for Rickman, which he handles extraordinarily well November 21, 2007
AIROLF (USA)
Eager for more Alan Rickman (Die Hard, AHarry Potter 1-5) goodness, I watched An Awfully Big Adventure.
Unfortunately, even though Alan Rickman gets top billing for this picture, he doesn't appear in it until a good half an hour into it. When he does, Rickman commands the stage (literally and as part of the movie's plot). There is one particular look that Rickman shoots Hugh Grant's character that alone makes it worth watching the rest of the two-hour movie. Rickman's performance never falls below excellence and his portrayal of Hook is mesmerizing (and the bits that we see of his stage role are more powerful than even when Dustin Hoffman played the famous pirate in Hook.
Georgina Cates' first major movie performance is impressive because she is able to match Rickman's intensity and bring about pure innocence to her character. Furthermore, at 20, she looks much younger than her 16-year-old character.
Mike Newell's direction is impressive in this film. And the costumes are authentic for the period.
Seeing the backstage of the late 1940s theater makes for an interesting drama, but more so makes the revelation more plausible, although it is highly predictable and as Dickensian as it is soap operaish. All, in all, a must-see film for anyone who has ever fallen under Rickman's spell.
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