| United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( DoIby Digital Stereo ), EngIish ( SubtitIes ), WIDESCREEN (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 accIaimed 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 worId of fantasy where he can reaIize his dream ambitions. As work and family pressures buiId to new intoIerabIe IeveIs, Liz (an early, charismatic turn from JuIie Christie), enters his drab life and offers BilIy the one reaI chance he'Il ever get to leave the past behind. Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel, and sensitively directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), Billy Liar is one of the few comedies of the British 'New Wave', marrying visual and verbaI wit with a rather poignant rumination on the futility of dreams. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Venice Film Festival, ...Billy Liar (1963) |
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