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Billy Liar is a 1963 film based on Keith Waterhouse's novel. It was directed by John Schlesinger and stars Tom Courtenay as Billy and Julie Christie as Liz. The film belongs to the Free Cinema movement and is the story of a young imaginative British boy who seeks to travel to London and become a world famous script writer. The film is a wonderful depiction of life in post war England and an ode to escapism, imagination and life itself. In 2004 the American band Decemberists named their first release album after Waterhouse's popular hero, as well.