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Billy Liar
Comedy, Drama, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to sharply observed social comedy about fantasists who use imagination to resist ordinary expectations.
- Tone
- whimsical, melancholic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- escapism, conformity, self-deception, frustrated ambition, adulthood
- Setting
- early 1960s, working-class northern English town