Absolute Beginners

Release date: 04/04/1986

Genres:

Drama, Music, Romance

Countries:

United Kingdom

Rating:

5.5

Welcome to the world of your dreams!

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...

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Actors

Eddie O'Connell

Colin, Photographer / Narrator

Patsy Kensit

Suzette

James Fox

Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen

David Bowie

Vendice Partners

Ray Davies

Arthur, Colin's Dad

Mandy Rice-Davies

Flora, Colin's Mum

Eve Ferret

Big Jill

Tony Hippolyte

Mr. Cool

Joseph McKenna

Fabulous Hoplite

Steven Berkoff

The Fanatic

Sade

Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)

Edward Tudor-Pole

Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)

Bruce Payne

Flikker

Alan Freeman

Call-Me-Cobber

Anita Morris

Dido Lament

Paul Rhys

Dean Swift

Julian Firth

The Misery Kid

Lionel Blair

Harry Charms

Gary Beadle

Johnny Wonder

Robbie Coltrane

Mario

Jess Conrad

Cappuccino Man

Ronald Fraser

Amberley Drove

Irene Handl

Mrs Larkin

Peter-Hugo Daly

Vern (as Peter Hugo-Daly)

Sylvia Syms

Cynthia Eve

Carmen Ejogo

Carmen

Colin Jeavons

Pamphleteer

Zoot Money

Chez Nobody Barman (as G.B. (Zoot) Money)

Sandie Shaw

Baby Boom's Mother

Bruno Tonioli

Maltese Lodger

Eric Sykes

Arcade Attendant (uncredited)

Absolute Beginners

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