Charlie Bubbles
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Albert Finney
Albert Finney
Colin Blakely
Billie Whitelaw
Liza Minnelli
Timothy Garland
Film Details
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Synopsis
Despite the advantages and luxuries that a successful writing career have brought him, Charlie Bubbles is bored with his life. At a plush London restaurant, he runs into an old friend, Smokey Pickles, and joins him for a drunken tour of London's haberdasheries, pool halls, and pubs. Charlie returns to his expensive townhouse with Smokey, slumps before the closed-circuit television monitors in his office, and disinterestedly watches the movements of his servants and secretary. An angry phone call from his ex-wife Lottie, who lives in a farmhouse in the country, reminds Charlie that he had promised to take their 9-year-old son, Jack, to a soccer match. Not particularly anxious to make the trip alone, he takes his American secretary Eliza along. They spend the early morning hours at a hotel in Manchester, and he passively permits her to make love to him. Upon arriving at Lottie's the next morning, Charlie is greeted with indifference almost equal to his own. In an attempt to communicate with his son, he takes the boy to the soccer match but loses him in the crowd. After searching for hours, he notifies the police and returns to the farmhouse, where he finds Jack contentedly watching television with his mother. Realizing that even his son has no real need of him, Charlie crawls into bed and falls asleep. The next morning he arises early and walks to a nearby meadow where a huge observation balloon is moored. He climbs into it, cuts the ropes, and rises slowly into the sky.
Director
Albert Finney
Cast
Albert Finney
Colin Blakely
Billie Whitelaw
Liza Minnelli
Timothy Garland
Richard Pearson
Nicholas Phipps
Peter Sallis
Charles Hill
Charles Lamb
Margery Mason
Diana Coupland
George Innes
Arthur Pentelow
Alan Lake
Yootha Joyce
Peter Carlisle
Wendy Padbury
Susan Engel
Rex Boyd
Joe Gladwin
John Ronane
Albert Shepherd
Ted Norris
Bryan Mosley
Crew
Jock Alexander
David Barber
Yvonne Blake
Rosemary Burrows
Terry Clegg
Doreen Dearnaley
Shelagh Delaney
Dino Di Campo
Misha Donat
Peter Handford
Joyce James
Ian Lewis
Josie Macavin
Edward Marshall
Fergus Mcdonell
Michael Medwin
George Pitcher
Charles Staffell
Hugh Strain
Peter Suschitzky
Jimmy Turrell
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Released in Great Britain in September 1968; running time: 89 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted Best Supporting Actress (Whitelaw) by the 1968 National Society of Film Critics.
Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1968 New York Times Film Critics.
Released in United States December 1967
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1968
Directorial debut for actor Albert Finney.
Screen debut for Liza Minelli.
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1968
Released in United States December 1967
