Absolute Beginners
Drama
Music
Romance
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...
1986-04-04
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Cast
Director
Julien Temple
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
Steven Berkoff as The Fanatic
Sade as Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)
Edward Tudor-Pole as Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)
Alan Freeman as Call-Me-Cobber
Anita Morris as Dido Lament
Paul Rhys as Dean Swift
Julian Firth as The Misery Kid
Lionel Blair as Harry Charms
Gary Beadle as Johnny Wonder
Robbie Coltrane as Mario
Jess Conrad as Cappuccino Man
Ronald Fraser as Amberley Drove
Slim Gaillard as Party Singer
Irene Handl as Mrs Larkin
Peter-Hugo Daly as Vern (as Peter Hugo-Daly)
Johnny Shannon as Saltzman
Sylvia Syms as Cynthia Eve
Carmen Ejogo as Carmen
Colin Jeavons as Pamphleteer
Zoot Money as Chez Nobody Barman (as G.B. (Zoot) Money)
Sandie Shaw as Baby Boom's Mother
Bruno Tonioli as Maltese Lodger
Chua Kah Joo as Dancer
Eric Sykes as Arcade Attendant (uncredited)