Billy Elliot
3NomsDirected by Stephen Daldry
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.
Awards
Details
- Released
- 28 September 2000
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Director
- Stephen Daldry
- Writers
- Lee Hall
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Box office
- $109,280,263
- Countries
- France, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Languages
- English
- Production
- StudioCanal, BBC Film, Tiger Aspect, Arts Council of England, Working Title Films, WT² Productions, Universal Pictures
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Cast
Jamie Bell
Gary Lewis
Julie WaltersNominated
Jean Heywood
Jamie Draven
Stuart Wells
Mike Elliot- BBilly Fane
- NNicola Blackwell
- CCarol McGuigan