Film

Absolute Beginners

1986 · 1h 48m · Drama · Music · Romance

Welcome to the world of your dreams!

IMDb

5.6

Rotten Tomatoes

73%

Metacritic

60

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...

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

Graham Fletcher-Cook

Wizard

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

• Julien TempleDirector
• Christopher WickingScreenplay
• Richard BurridgeScreenplay
• Don MacPhersonScreenplay
• Colin MacInnesNovel
• Stephen WoolleyProducer
• Chris BrownProducer
• Nik PowellExecutive Producer
• Al ClarkExecutive Producer
• Robert DevereuxExecutive Producer

Release date

April 4, 1986

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

PG-13

Genres

Drama, Music, Romance

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