Top billed cast

1. 

   Tom Courtenay

   William Terrence 'Billy' Fisher

2. 

   Julie Christie

   Liz

3. 

   Wilfred Pickles

   Geoffrey Fisher

4. 

   Mona Washbourne

   Alice Fisher

5. 

   Ethel Griffies

   Grandma Florence

6. 

   Finlay Currie

   Duxbury

7. 

   Gwendolyn Watts

   Rita

8. 

   Helen Fraser

   Barbara

9. 

   Leonard Rossiter

   Emanuel Shadrack

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-02-12

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, he becomes more and more alienated from those around them. In the end, it is really only the happy-go-lucky "Liz" (Julie Christie) who might be capable of offering him a yellow bric...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$35,609.00

Keywords

• dreams
• northern england
• based on novel or book
• lie
• yorkshire
• train
• ambrosia
• bradford