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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Billy, Walter retreats into grand, comic fantasies to survive an ordinary life, balancing exuberant imagination with the gentle sadness of a man struggling to act on his desires.
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Why this pick
It shares Billy Liar’s northern English texture, youthful frustration and resistance to constricting authority, though its mood is tougher and more socially angry than whimsical.
03
Why this pick
Another vivid British New Wave study of young people boxed in by provincial expectations, combining candid domestic observation, sharp humour and a restless hunger for a different future.
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Why this pick
Tom Courtenay brings a similarly vulnerable, funny, stubborn energy to this compassionate working-class drama, where romantic hope pushes against a tightly limited everyday world.
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01 / THE STORY
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) lives in Yorkshire with his parents (Wilfred Pickles and Mona Washbourne) and grandmother (Ethel Griffies), and works as an undertakers' clerk overseen by the rigid Mr. Shadrack (Leonard Rossiter). Billy wishes to get away from his stifling job and family life. To escape the boredom of his humdrum existence, he constantly daydreams and fantasises, often picturing himself as the ruler and military hero of an imaginary country called Ambrosia. He also makes up stories about himself and his family, causing him to be nicknamed "Billy Liar".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alice Fisher
Duxbury
Rita
Barbara
Liz
Arthur Crabtree
Danny Boon
Telephonist
