![]() ![]() ![]() His relationship with his possessive, needy girlfriend Margaret appears to be going nowhere and, while he has set his cap at an attractive blonde named Christine, that relationship also appears to be doomed as she is the girlfriend of Welch's novelist son Bertrand. He is perpetually short of cash and forced to live in a seedy lodging-house. A." He hates his job and his boss, Professor Welch. ![]() Indeed, his life can be summed up in the words of the theme-song from "Friends":- "Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D. As the story opens, however, Jim does not seem to be particularly lucky or enviable. Kingsley Amis, who wrote the novel on which this film is based, took his title from a song- "Oh, lucky Jim, How I envy him." (We hear this song a couple of times during the film). Jim Dixon is a junior lecturer at an unnamed provincial university. ![]()
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