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Billy Liar 98 minutes, UK (1963), PG
(4.0)
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Hopeless fantasist Tom Courtenay dreams of escaping life in a northern town at the start of the 1960s in this adaptation of Keith Waterhouse's novel and play

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Billy Liar: Six years before he gave us Midnight Cowboy, director John Schlesinger assembled a cast of soon-to-be-famous faces for this pivotal tragi-comedy.

Billy Fisher (Courtenay) lives with his parents and works for scornful undertaker Shadrack (Rossiter)...
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