Absolute Beginners
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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...
Cast
Robbie Coltrane
Mario
Irene Handl
Mrs Larkin
Eve Ferret
Big Jill
Joseph McKenna
Fabulous Hoplite
Paul Rhys
Dean Swift
Chua Kah Joo
Dancer
Eric Sykes
Arcade Attendant (uncredited)
Mandy Rice-Davies
Flora, Colin's Mum
Steven Berkoff
The Fanatic
Sylvia Syms
Cynthia Eve
Slim Gaillard
Party Singer
Carmen Ejogo
Carmen
Sandie Shaw
Baby Boom's Mother
Bruno Tonioli
Maltese Lodger
David Bowie
Vendice Partners
Colin Jeavons
Pamphleteer
Eddie O'Connell
Colin, Photographer / Narrator
Anita Morris
Dido Lament
Lionel Blair
Harry Charms
Zoot Money
Chez Nobody Barman (as G.B. (Zoot) Money)
James Fox
Henley of Mayfair, Dressmaker to the Queen
Sade
Athene Duncannon (as Sade Adu)
Edward Tudor-Pole
Ed the Ted (as Tenpole Tudor)
Jess Conrad
Cappuccino Man
Peter-Hugo Daly
Vern (as Peter Hugo-Daly)
Ray Davies
Arthur, Colin's Dad
Graham Fletcher-Cook
Wizard
Bruce Payne
Flikker
Gary Beadle
Johnny Wonder
Ronald Fraser
Amberley Drove
Johnny Shannon
Saltzman
Patsy Kensit
Suzette
Tony Hippolyte
Mr. Cool
Alan Freeman
Call-Me-Cobber
Julian Firth
The Misery Kid