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Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot

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Key Information
Directors: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Jamie Bell
Actors: Gary Lewis
Genre: Dramas
Subgenre: 1980s · Drama (General)
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: VHS
UPC: 096898865333
Release Date: 2000
Running Time: 1hr 51min
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD, 1hr 51min
Release Company: Universal Studios Home Video (April 17, 2001)
UPC: 025192113420
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS, 1hr 51min
Release Company: Universal Studios Home Video (April 17, 2001)
UPC: 096898711234
Credits
Screenwriter: Lee Hall
Professional Reviews
: (10/13/2000, p.E29, A. O. Scott): "...Stephen Daldry anchors [the film's] melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism....Jamie Bell [conveys a] convincing mixture of sullenness and innocent charm..."
Quotes from the Movie
: Mrs. Wilkinson: "I've been thinking about the National Ballet School." Billy: "Aren't you a bit old for that, miss?" Mrs. Wilkinson: "Not for me, for you!"
More Information
Details: Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in northeast 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. BILLY ELLIOT is a touching and heartwarming story that avoids clich?s by setting the story in the grim mining town of northern England amid economic hardship and sacrifice, showing the joy and release that dancing provides for Billy. Newcomer Jamie Bell, who does all his own dancing in ...
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