7.6/10
Billy Elliot
"Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it."
2000
·
1h 51min
Drama
Comedy
Music
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.
Director
Stephen Daldry
Starring
Jamie Bell · Gary Lewis · Julie Walters · Jean Heywood · Jamie Draven
