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Billy Elliot
The life of an ordinary young boy named Billy Elliot, who lives in the small country of Durham, where he participates in the miner's strike, has been changed completely, upon finding out that he is in love with the ballet classes, the thing that makes him struggle against telling his family, as they will not accept.
14 December 1935, Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]
2 November 1943, London, England, UK
3 April 1974, Bangor, Wales, UK
3 November 1960, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
1988, England, UK
17 November 1978, Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand
April 19, 2002
Billy Elliot earns every one of its sentiments and emotions without getting overly manipulative or preachy
January 01, 2000
Billy Elliot is a feel-good movie that you don't have to feel bad about feeling good about.
January 01, 2000
Real and consequential.
September 25, 2010
The film about atypical artistic pursuits in a blue-collar community that "The Full Monty" sought to be. Peter Darling's choreography dexterously captures the defiance in the dancing - rage against economical and emotional repression in a motherless home.
January 01, 2000
Julie Walters ... is spirited and colorful as the ballet teacher, and Gary Lewis is somehow convincing as the dad even when the screenplay requires him to make big offscreen swings of position.
October 14, 2007
When sticking with Billy and his inspirational story, director Stephen Daldry hits all the right steps.
January 01, 2000
The best dance film in ages.
June 10, 2003
Daldry coaches an astonishing performance from Bell.
January 01, 2000
The unvarnished, non-enhanced spectacle of a human being executing a display of physical prowess will always have the power to astonish, and the young Mr. Bell proves this very nicely.
June 15, 2002
The story is familiar, to be sure, but director Stephen Daldry and writer Lee Hall tell it so persuasively it's irresistible, and the movie's score of vintage T. Rex classics could do for glam-rock what "The Full Monty" did for disco.
December 22, 2010
Terrific story of young ballet dancer has strong language.
January 01, 2000
Neither revolutionary in its approach or subject matter nor seamless in its storytelling, Billy Elliot nevertheless manages to sketch the lives of characters we come to care about.
