iF Rating: 8/13

Director: Stephen Daldry

Runtime: 110 min

Certification: (15)

Sub-Genre: Comedy | Drama

Title: Billy Elliot

Release Date: 13 October 2000

Writer: Lee Hall

Copyrights: Studio Canal | Working Title Films

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Info: In BILLY ELLIOT, the titular character (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in north-east England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively plays his dead mother’s piano out of loneliness. One day Billy notices a ballet class nearby. Intrigued, he begins practicing and taking lessons from Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Walters), a tough-minded teacher. Billy begins to fall in love with ballet but keeps his lessons a secret from his family, who struggle to put food on the table while the strike drags on. When his father finally learns the truth, a family crisis erupts, and Billy struggles to prove that dancing is more than just a hobby–it’s his dream.