Directed by:
Stephen DaldryScreenplay:
Lee HallCinematography:
Brian TufanoComposer:
Stephen WarbeckCast:
Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Jean Heywood, Mike Elliot, Nicola Blackwell, Colin Maclachlan, Trevor Fox, Charlie Hardwick (more)VOD (2)
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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. (official distributor synopsis)
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