starring
Tom Courtenay with Julie Christie
Billy Fisher 's real world is bounded by a dull Northern town, a job as clerk in an undertaker's office, a quarrelsome relationship with his parents and a potentially explosive one with two girls to whom he has simultaneously be* come engaged. A compulsive liar, Billy is also ruler of his own fantasy kingdom of Ambrosia, to which he retreats when circum. stances become too much for him - which is often.
Adapted by KEITH WATERHOUSE from his novel
Director JOHN SCHLESINGER . Films: page a