

Billy Liar
one guy ... three girls ... one ring!
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
TMDB
6.8/10
128 votes
IMDb
Not rated yet
View on IMDb
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $35.6K
- Language
- English
- dreams
- northern england
- based on novel or book
- lie
- yorkshire
- train
- ambrosia
- bradford
Top billed cast















Behind the camera
Director
Writers
Produced in
United Kingdom
Gallery





Videos
Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical16 Dec 1963
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalLondon15 Aug 1963
- Theatrical16 Sept 1963
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG31 Jan 1964
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVenice Film Festival29 Aug 1963
Frequently asked questions
Billy Liar was released on 15 August 1963.
Audience reviews
2- C5/10
CRCulver
9/5/2018
<i>Billy Liar</i> is a 1963 British film that captures the monumental changes of the era: the sexual revolution and the destruction of England's old town centres in modernisation schemes. In Bradford, Yorkshire young Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is working a soul-crushing job in a funeral home and suffering daily the derision of his elderly parents. His only escape from this drudgery is his active imagination, where …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/12/2023
Tom Courtenay is "Billy", a lad whose grasp on reality is, well, tenuous. In his dreams, he is a brave and valiant life-saving sort of fellow. In real life he is a lowly clerk who works for a funeral director and lives with his increasingly exasperated parents. His problems only increase as he struggles to differentiate between his real life and that in his fictional land of "Ambrosia" and as his fantasies develop, h…
Member reviews
Sign in to rate and review. Browsing stays free and open.
Sign inMember comments
0Sign in to post a comment. Browsing stays free and open.
Sign in











