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- Dancer's LifeFollow Your DreamHopesYouthFamily RelationsComing of AgeParents and ChildrenWorking Class more...
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- DramaComedyMusicPeriod
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- 20th Century80s
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- EnglandDance SchoolSmall Town
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- Date NightFamily Outing
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Billy Elliot, 2000
English
UK, France
Profile of Billy Elliot
The mood of Billy Elliot is uplifting, sentimental, and feel good. The plot centers around dancers, following your dreams, and hopes. It is a drama, comedy, and period movie. In approach, Billy Elliot is realistic. It takes place, at least partly, at a dance school and in a small town. The setting is England. Billy Elliot happens in the 1980s. The musical score is pop and rock. The movie is known for being essential viewing, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. Billy Elliot is especially suggested for a date night and a family outing. Note that it includes profanity.
Summary of Billy Elliot
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. Billy Elliot is a touching and heartwarming story that avoids clichés by setting the story in the grim mining town of northern England amid economic hardship and sacrifice, showing the joy and release that dancing provides for Billy. Newcomer Jamie Bell, who does all his own dancing in the film, deserves special credit for his performance as Billy.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, France |
| Release date: | 12 October 2000 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
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as Billy Elliot
as Mrs. Wilkinson
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Critics Reviews
Film.com
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- by: Robert Horton
USA Today
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- by: Susan Wloszczyna
Users Reviews
- 27.March.2011
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- by: retroshady
- retroshady rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 31.January.2011
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- by: Chanel Tossounian
- Chanel Tossounian rated this movie10/10Must See
