The Pirates! The Pirates! The Pirates! is a series of five comedy books following a group of pirates on their adventures. It is written by British author Gideon Defoe and was published starting in 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The fifth book "The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics" was released in 2012, and was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Aardman Animations in partnership with Sony Pictures Animation loosely adapted "The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists " into a 3D stop-motion animated film internationally titled "The Pirates! Band of Misfits". Released on 28 March 2012, and directed by Peter Lord, the
An Awfully Big Adventure An Awfully Big Adventure An Awfully Big Adventure is a 1995 British coming-of-age film directed by Mike Newell. The story concerns a teenage girl who joins a local repertory theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of "Peter Pan", the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue. The title is an ironic nod to the original Peter Pan story, in which Peter says "To die will be an awfully big adventure." Set during the years following World War II, the film was adapted from the