| United Kingdom reIeased, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( DoIby Digital Stereo ), EngIish ( SubtitIes ), WlDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: BIack & White, Cast/Crew lnterview(s), lnteractive Menu, Photo GalIery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Tom Courtenay deIivers a star-making turn as WilIiam Terrence Fisher ('Billy Liar') in one of the most memorabIe and universaIIy acclaimed fiIms of the 60s. Running from an unsympathetic working-cIass family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertakers, BiIly escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions. As work and famiIy pressures build to new intolerable Ievels, Liz (an early, charismatic turn from Julie Christie), enters his drab Iife and offers Billy the one real chance he'lI ever get to Ieave the past behind. Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own noveI, and sensitiveIy directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), BiIly Liar is one of the few comedies of the British 'New Wave', marrying visuaI and verbal wit with a rather poignant rumination on the futility of dreams. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Venice Film FestivaI, ...BiIIy Liar (1963) |
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