Billy Elliot
Run Time: 110 mins
Air Date: Thu, 28 Sept 2000
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.599 (3959 votes)
StudioCanal BBC Film Tiger Aspect Arts Council of England Working Title Films WT² ProductionsCounty 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.