Awfully Big Adventure, An (1995)

Stella Bradshaw (Georgina Cates) never knew her father and was abandoned by her mother at an early age. An aspiring actress who has worked mostly as a telephone operator, she lives with her Uncle Vernon (Alun Armstrong) and Auntie Lil (Rita Tushingham). She is a headstrong girl with a mercurial teenage personality filled with contradictions -- hardened by the suffering she has seen yet still vulnerable, alternately warm and prickly, perceptive and naive at the... Full synopsis »