Billy Elliot  

Thu Sep 28 2000

Overview,

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.

The Movie Database: 7.597/10

Internet Movie Database: 7.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Metacritic: 74/100

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Details

Rating

Not Adult

Genres

Drama
Comedy
Music

Tagline

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

Langauge

en

Production Companies

StudioCanal
BBC Film
Tiger Aspect
Arts Council of England
Working Title Films
WT² Productions

Runtime

110 minutes

Budget

5.000 Million $

Box-Office

109.280 Million $

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