Billy Elliot
Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.
20001h 51mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Comedy
- Music
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 28, 2000
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- France, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,Working Title Films,Focus Features,StudioCanal,WT2 Productions,BBC Film,Tiger Aspect,Arts Council of England,WT² Productions
- Cast
- Jamie Bell,Gary Lewis,Julie Walters,Jean Heywood,Jamie Draven,Stuart Wells,Mike Elliot,Billy Fane,Nicola Blackwell,Carol McGuiganand 33 more
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Writer
- Lee Hall
- Cinematography
- Brian Tufano
- Music
- Stephen Warbeck
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Revenue
- $109,280,263
- IMDb
- tt0249462