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Billy Liar. Tom Courtenay is the clerk whose overactive fantasies compensate for a dull provincial life, in this classic film from the British New Wave. 229 IMDb 7.3 1 h 38 min 1963. 13+. Comedy · Drama · Confused · Fun. This video is currently unavailable.
Billy Fisher : [to Liz] I have a sort of... well, it's an imaginary country where I go. I'm supposed to be the prime minister and you're the foreign secretary. It will be a big room, and when we go in it through the door, that's it. That's our country. Nobody else will be allowed in at all.
Undertaker's clerk Billy (Tom Courtenay) escapes his dreary small town existence in a 1950s Northern town by living in a fantasy world where he realises his ambitions. When his job, unsympathetic working class family and two fiancees threaten to become too much, he meets fashionable Julie Christie, who offers him his one chance for real escape.
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Tom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher (‘Billy Liar’) in one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60s. Running from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées and an insecure job at an undertakers, Billy escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a world of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions.
20 dic 2023 · 1963, 9Honey Movies. Billy Liar. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family. Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles. Contains: Sexual References, Adult Themes. Addeddate.
Tom Courtenay is filming 'Billy Liar'... Actor Tom Courtenay is photographed at the Toronto Film Festival for Variety on September 12, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario. English actors Julie Christie, as Lara Antipova, and Tom Courtenay as Pasha Antipov, in 'Doctor Zhivago', directed by David Lean, 1965.
Tom Courtenay gives a flawlessly nuanced performance as Billy Fisher, the underachieving undertaker’s assistant whose constant daydreams and truth-deficient stories earn him the nickname “ Billy Liar .”. Julie Christie is the handbag-swinging charmer whose free spirit just might inspire Billy to finally move out of his parents’ house.
