Absolute Beginners

Movie

Absolute Beginners

Drama

Music

Romance

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

Date: 04/04/1986

Rating: 5.5

Cast: Eddie O'Connell, Patsy Kensit, James Fox, David Bowie, Ray Davies, Mandy Rice-Davies, Eve Ferret, Tony Hippolyte, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Joseph McKenna, Steven Berkoff, Sade, Edward Tudor-Pole, Bruce Payne, Alan Freeman, Anita Morris, Paul Rhys, Julian Firth, Chris Pitt, Lionel Blair, Gary Beadle, Robbie Coltrane, Jess Conrad, Smiley Culture, Ronald Fraser, Slim Gaillard, Irene Handl, Peter-Hugo Daly, Amanda Jane Powell, Johnny Shannon, Sylvia Syms, Ekow Abban, Robert Austin, Gerry Alexander, Jim Dunk, Johnny Edge, Carmen Ejogo, Paul Fairminer, Hugo First, Pat Hartley, Astley Harvey, Colin Jeavons, Alfred Maron, Zoot Money, Sandie Shaw, Bruno Tonioli, Eric Sykes, Barrie Holland

Eddie O'Connell