Billy's Holiday (1995)
- Directed by
- Richard Wherrett
- Genre
- musical film
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- M
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A struggling Australian musician named Billy Apples gets a visit from the spirit of Billie Holiday and suddenly can sing like her. He tries to revive his career and find a new audience with this unexpected gift.
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What happens
Billy's Holiday is a 1995 Australian musical film, directed by Richard Wherrett and starring Max Cullen. Based on Cullen's real-life ability to vocally impersonate Billie Holiday, the film revolves around a man named Billy Apples, played by Cullen, whose life and music career are stagnating until he is visited by Holiday's spirit and finds himself gifted with her voice. Despite finding a receptive audience at the Cannes Film Festival and some success with international distributors, the film was negatively received in Australia and was a box office bomb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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