Billy Elliot
- Comedy
- Drama
- 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.
- Directed by
- Stephen Daldry
- Written by
- Lee Hall
Cast
Jamie Bell- Gary Lewis
Julie Walters- Jean Heywood
- Jamie Draven
- Stuart Wells
- Mike Elliot
- Billy Fane
- Nicola Blackwell
- Carol McGuigan
- Joe Renton
- Colin MacLachlan
Keywords
- lgbt
- friendship
- coming of age
- dreams
- single father
- hope
- revolt
- sadness
- ballet
- cross dressing
- mentor
- homophobia
- dancing
- audition
- letter
- helping children
- ballet dancer
- crying
- young boy
- northern england
- workers' quarter
- socialism
- strike
- emotional vulnerability
- street riots
- ballet school
- youngster
- dancing class
- dance class
- retrospective
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