{"product_id":"billy-liar-50th-anniversary-edition-1963","title":"Billy Liar - 50th Anniversary Edition (1963)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTom Courtenay delivers a star-making turn as William Terrence Fisher (‘Billy\r\nLiar’) in one of the most memorable and universally acclaimed films of the 60s.\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nRunning from an unsympathetic working-class family, a pair of demanding fiancées \r\nand an insecure job at an undertakers, Billy escapes, Walter Mitty-like, into a \r\nworld of fantasy where he can realize his dream ambitions. As work and family \r\npressures build to new intolerable levels, Liz (an early, charismatic turn from \r\nJulie Christie), enters his drab life and offers Billy the one real chance he’ll \r\never get to leave the past behind. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nScripted by Keith Waterhouse from his own novel, and sensitively directed by \r\nJohn Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), Billy Liar is one of the few comedies of the \r\nBritish ‘New Wave’, marrying visual and verbal wit with a rather poignant \r\nrumination on the futility of dreams. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nSpecial Features\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n• Remembering Billy Liar with Tom Courtenay and Helen Fraser \u003cbr\u003e\r\n• Interview with Richard Ayoade \u003cbr\u003e\r\n• A look through the Keith Waterhouse Archive with British Library Curator Zoe \r\nWilcox \u003cbr\u003e\r\n• Interview with Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley \u003cbr\u003e\r\n• Stills Gallery \u003cbr\u003e\r\n• Trailer \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Studiocanal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54300893905281,"sku":"OPTD2526","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/9050\/5986\/files\/2602345.jpg?v=1747169205","url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/billy-liar-50th-anniversary-edition-1963","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}