Billy Liar (1963)

7.3	Listal rating
7.5	IMDB rating

Mind (2), Dreaming (2), Drama (2), Comedy (2), Fantasy (1), Romance (1), 60s (1), Dream (1), Illness (1), 1963 (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), Contact (1), Altered States (1), MMG (1), Fantasy/sci-fi (1), Flights Of Fancy (1)

Description

A young man named Billy works a dull job at a funeral home. He escapes reality with frequent vivid daydream fantasies, especially involving the seduction of women. Billy gets in increasing trouble with having to lie to cover his mistakes, and his real family and girlfriend try to help him return to reality.

Directed by

John Schlesinger

Starring (View all) :

Tom Courtenay

William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher

Wilfred Pickles

Geoffrey Fisher

Mona Washbourne

Alice Fisher

Ethel Griffies

Florence, Billy's grandmother

Duxbury

Rita

Barbara

Liz

Emanuel Shadrack

Arthur Crabtree

Written by (View all) :

Keith Waterhouse

(novel)

Willis Hall

(play) and

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atgthatsme

Funny tragi-comedy

Posted : 10 months ago at Jan 22 15:09

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 how people under the old framework of soceity wanted to escape their lives but were just too scared to. It also shows the people who had changed there lives who had a free existance from rules and expectations. A good watch if not for the laughs but the social observations.

Rating : 7/10

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