Billy Elliot

Name: Billy Elliot
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 2000-09-28
Duration: 1 h 51 min
Cast: Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood

2000 · 1h 51m · Comedy, Drama, Music · France, United Kingdom · Rated PG-13 (US)

Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

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Stephen Daldry

Written by

Lee Hall

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Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood

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