Denys N. Coop, Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie
Billy Fisher, is a lazy, wildly inventive, daydreaming, irresponsible clerk in north country town possessed with an extraordinarily vivid imagination and an inability to tell the truth for more than t...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 1, 1998
Stats: 146 reviews
Few movies have snuck up on me like "Billy Liar" did. It starts out a bit familiar - there are some wonderfully stylish touches in the fantasy sequences, but the dreamer stuck in dead-end jobs didn't seem remarkably new. However, it's in the last half an hour that "Billy Liar" pl...( read more)
a charming british comedy from the 60's that is ultimately quite touching. a young man lives in a fantasy world until confronted with an opportunity to actually change his life. tom courtenay gives an amazing performance that put me in mind of malcolm macdowell in a clockwork o...( read more)
Billy Liar didn't floor me, but the overall look of the movie and John Schlesinger's direction did. The brief machine gun cutaways and the brief Ambrosia sidebars were brilliant. God knows when I don't want to deal with someone or something I just want to open fire with a machine...( read more)
One of my favourites. Has some great comic moments as well as being one of the best known of the "kitchen sink dramas". The story revolves around Billy who does nothing but daydream and let his imagination run wild. Its through his wild imagination that Billy has managed to find ...( read more)
Billy Fisher wants to escape his dull repeatative life but when a chance to actually get away announces it's self he bottles it and decides to go back to his old safe life and continue to live in his world of fantasy and dreams. Billy Liar represents the 60's really well showing ...( read more)
Easily, one of my favourite films ever. A film essentially for young people and in fact, a great film because its tone and message is so hard to pin down. I was so delighted that the director showed so much love to his character, never humiliating him and sympathizing with his bi...( read more)
A fabulous script, but it would mean little without Tom Courtney's amazing portrayal.
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