Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jamie BellBilly Elliot
- Gary LewisJackie Elliot
- Julie WaltersMrs Wilkinson
- Jean HeywoodGrandma
- Jamie DravenTony Elliot
- Stuart WellsMichael Caffrey
- Mike ElliotGeorge Watson
- Billy FaneMr Braithwaite
- Nicola BlackwellDebbie Wilkinson
- Carol McGuiganLibrarian
- 91
Portland Oregonian
An exquisite, ecstatic film, crude in its characterizations and plotting, yes, but extraordinary in its capacity for elation and its hard-earned sentimentality. - 90
Rolling Stone
Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart without sham tearjerking. Look for Billy to blast off. - 88
USA Today
You'd be hard-pressed to find a purer expression of rapture in a film this year than the one that opens Billy Elliot. - 88
Chicago Tribune
A triumph that deserves a broad audience. - 88
Boston Globe
Bell is utterly persuasive as the boy literally yearning to leap beyond the oppressively apparent confines of his world. - 80
Film.com
Director Stephen Daldry gets it right. - 75
New York Post
An uplifting, crowd-pleasing film in the tradition of "The Full Monty" that could easily win Oscar nominations for both its 11-year-old star, Jamie Bell, and first-time director, Stephen Daldry. - 75
Miami Herald
Compared to manipulative tearjerkers like "Pay It Forward" or "Men of Honor," Billy Elliot is a model of restraint, one that earns its warmth the hard way -- by making us care about the people who are going through familiar steps.
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