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.
John Schlesinger had previously worked with Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall on A Kind of Loving. Billy Liar, adapted from Waterhouse’s novel, is the comedic counterpoint to that earlier film. It details attractive dreamer Billy’s attempts to escape his humdrum existence, both through his fantasies and in reality via his attempts at a relationship. Comedy flows from the ever-larger lies Billy is forced to tell, as he weighs up the possibility of escaping to forge a new life.
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