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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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