Billy Liar (1973)★ 7.4/10
- Comedy
Directed by: Stuart Allen, Alan Wallis
Written by: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
Billy is an idealistic young man trapped in a boring life. He does a boring job in the office of a funeral home with a perpetually strict employer, he dates a foolish girl who can't satisfy him.
- Original title
- Billy Liar
- Storyline
- Billy is an idealistic young man who is trapped in a boring life. He works in a tedious job in an undertaker's office with a permanently uptight employer, dates a soppy girl who fails to satisfy him emotionally or physically and lives with his parents and grandmother who stifle his personality. To forget about all of this, Billy escapes into his imagination and fantasizes his life away.
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 87
- Companies
- London Weekend Television (LWT), ITV - Independent Television
- Release dates
- GB November 2, 1973
- BE May 25, 1974
- NL May 26, 1977