Absolute Beginners(1986)

🎬108 min
📅1986-04-04
🎭Drama, Music, Romance
5.5/10

Overview

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...

Production

Goldcrest, Palace Pictures, Virgin Vision

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Cast

Eddie O'Connell
as Colin, Photographer / Narrator
Patsy Kensit
as Suzette
James Fox
as Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
David Bowie
as Vendice Partners
Ray Davies
as Arthur, Colin's Dad
Mandy Rice-Davies
as Flora, Colin's Mum
Eve Ferret
as Big Jill
Tony Hippolyte
as Mr. Cool
Graham Fletcher-Cook
as Wizard
Joseph McKenna
as Fabulous Hoplite