I didn't laugh much. It's a pretty sad tale about a young man (Tom Courtenay) in a dead end job with an unhappy home life who lies and constantly escapes into a fantasy world. I got most of the jokes (sometimes the English accents are hard to understand), but they just weren't very funny. Also the satire of the business world was pretty dated. It is worth seeing for beautiful black & white photography (you have to see it letter-boxed or on a big screen--there's no other way), good acting and directing and a marvelous performance by Julie Christie. When she was on screen that movie zoomed to life. She's so young and beautiful and full of spunk--too bad she's only in the last section. So, worth seeing, but no masterpiece.
Review of Billy Liar
