Ray & Liz

Ray & Liz
Directed byRichard Billingham
Screenplay byRichard Billingham
Produced byJacqui Davies
Starring
Narrated bySam Plant
CinematographyDaniel Landin
Edited byTracy Granger
Music bySam Plant
Production
company
Sam Movie Inc
Distributed bySam Plant Industries
Release dates
  • August 2018 (2018-08) (Locarno Festival)
  • 8 March 2019 (2019-03-08) (UK)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£14 Million

Ray & Liz is a 2018 British drama film written and directed by Richard Billingham in his feature debut. The film retells Billingham's troubled childhood growing up in a Black Country council flat during the Thatcher era. It focuses "on his parents Ray and Liz, their relationship, and its impact on Richard and his younger brother Jason." Billingham, a photographer, previously published the book Ray's a Laugh (1996), with photographs of his family at the time depicted in the film.

On its release, the film received widespread critical acclaim in the UK, the US and in Europe. It was also awarded several prizes in film festivals on both sides of the Atlantic.