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In post-war Liverpool, innocent teenager Stella finds that life with a theatre company is less glamorous and more sordid than she'd expected. Tragi-comic backstage drama from Mike 'Four Weddings' Newell.

Keywords:

Drama, Based-on-Novel, Coming of Age, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1994) (UK) (3 Star)

Cast:

Alan Rickman	.... P.L. O'Hara
Hugh Grant	.... Meredith Potter
Georgina Cates	.... Stella
Alun Armstrong	.... Uncle Vernon
Peter Firth	.... Bunny
Prunella Scales	.... Rose

Supporting Cast:

Rita Tushingham	.... Aunt Lily
Alan Cox	.... Geoffrey
Edward Petherbridge	.... St. Ives
Nicola Pagett	.... Dotty Blundell
Carol Drinkwater	.... Dawn Allenby
Clive Merrison	.... Desmond Fairchild
Gerard McSorley	.... George
Ruth McCabe	.... Grace Bird
James Frain	.... John Harbour

Directors:

Mike Newell

Writers:

Beryl Bainbridge
Charles Wood