Taking Hugh for Granted

An Awfully Big Adventure

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This week the boys travel to Neverland to review An Awfully Big Adventure, or as they’ve officially renamed it – 'An Awfully Shite Adventure'. That being said, this film is definitely worth sticking in your VHS player because acting legend Alan Rickman stars alongside our man Hugh Grant.

In 1947, a naive teenage girl named Stella (played by Georgina Cates) joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. The troupe, led by the mean-spirited and flamboyant Meredith Potter (played by Hugh Grant) put on a production of Peter Pan. After P.L. O’Hara (played by Alan Rickman) joins the cast as Captain Hook, Stella quickly becomes entangled in the theatre’s web of sexual politics and intrigue...

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