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21 July 1995 (USA)
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In a world of make believe Stella is about to discover the difference between true love... and real life. more
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In Liverpool in 1947, a theatre company is planning to produce a series of plays. Sixteen year old Stella...
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2 nominations
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Spring Awakening's Morgan Karr To Sing At Joe's Pub 3/24
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 24 February 2009, 12:58 PM, PST)
Hugh Grant
(From The Hollywood News. 16 December 2008, 7:57 PM, PST)
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 24 February 2009, 12:58 PM, PST)
Hugh Grant
(From The Hollywood News. 16 December 2008, 7:57 PM, PST)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alan Rickman | ... | P.L. O'Hara |
 | Hugh Grant | ... | Meredith Potter |
 | Georgina Cates | ... | Stella |
| Alun Armstrong | ... | Uncle Vernon |
| Peter Firth | ... | Bunny |
| Prunella Scales | ... | Rose |
| 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 |
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Rated R for sexuality and some language.
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112 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Australia:MA |
Finland:K-14 |
Germany:12 (bw) |
Iceland:12 (video rating) |
Iceland:L (original rating) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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Georgina Cates had unsuccessfully auditioned for the part of Stella under her real name of Clare Woodgate. Frustrated, she dyed her hair, reinvented herself as a 16-year-old Liverpool girl called "Georgina Cates", and landed the role.
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Anachronisms: When O'Hara is running down the wharf in 1947, there is a modern car carrier (ship) in the background.
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P.L. O'Hara:
Some disky spirit compels me now to make my dying speech.
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I've been curious about this movie for a long time. I finally saw it on IFC.
It was great! In this age of VERY expensive, predictable, committee-approved "art", I was relieved to watch this story unfold. Although I suspected early on about the relationship between Cates and Rickman's characters, it's execution was much better than the usual pap that pretends to be a surprise or twist.
Or even interesting.
The real twists in this story, was its own mirror of the real human forces and decisions that keep some of the sweetest, and unfortunately, worst stories going on. The twists were the tiny reasons why such things, sometimes painful and abhorrent to our collective cultural sense of what's right and decent in a society, to continue within it.
The hypocrisy of denying that these dark parts of ourselves exist often cause them to continue. Often times, the self-appointed moral-police of our culture make this inevitable in their pursuit of human frailty, the aftermath of its hunt, and the white-washing of the events (and non-events) they discovered.
No character represented total evil, good, decadence or purity, including Stella. She had as much (subtle) emotional weaponry with her, as she had emotional scars.
Many Americans don't like, or have been trained (over time) to not have patience for such imperfect main-characters in fiction anymore. The one-dimensional, mass-marketed character, is the norm here now.
That's sad. Because of that, this movie (and others like it) didn't do very well here.
Having this story take place within the entertainment industry is an excellent way of displaying so much of the world's human tragedy AND stupidity being covered up by some people's treachery, some people's nobility, or a combination of both.
And even at the end of this tale, all of the stage crew, like life itself, executed their own particular versions of the adage, "The show must go on."
No perfect hollywood story here, with it's base and stupid doling out of come-uppance of everyone's flaws...or Evil.