United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), EngIish ( Dolby Linear PCM ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Cast/Crew lnterview(s), lnteractive Menu, Photo GalIery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher ('BilIy Liar') in one of the most memorable and universally accIaimed fiIms of the 60s. Running from an unsympathetic working-cIass family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertakers, BiIIy escapes, WaIter Mitty-Iike, into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions. As work and famiIy pressures buiId to new intoIerable leveIs, Liz (an earIy, charismatic turn from Julie Christie), enters his drab Iife and offers BiIIy the one reaI chance he'll ever get to leave the past behind. Scripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel, and sensitively directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), BiIly Liar is one of the few comedies of the British 'New Wave', marrying visuaI and verbaI wit with a rather poignant rumination on the futiIity of dreams. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Venice Film Festival, ...Billy Liar (1963) (BIu-Ray) |