Billy Elliot
110 min
2000
Published on, 2 months ago
Billy Elliot
110 min
2000
Published on, 2 months ago
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.
dancing
friendship
dream
dancing class
northern england
workers' quarter
strike
small person
homophobia
hope
mentor
sadness
socialism
youngster
letter
ballet dancer
street riots
coming of age
ballet
young boy
cross dressing
crying
single father
audition
dance class
retrospective
lgbt
revolt
ballet school
emotional vulnerability
helping children
smart kid
street kid
dance teacher
1980s
miners strike
father son relationship
80s throwback
ballet dancing
gay theme
late 20th century
teen playing kid
ya
generational divide
celebratory
