Billy Elliot

About Billy Elliot

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.

Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot is a 2000 comedy music film. Jamie Bell stars as Billy Elliot, Gary Lewis as Jackie Elliot, Julie Walters as Mrs Wilkinson, and Jean Heywood as Grandma.

Released in September 2000, it runs 111 minutes. Written by Lee Hall. It comes from Arts Council of England, BBC Film, and StudioCanal.

Shelv files it under dreams, homophobia, celebratory, and dancing. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 4,211 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live, Boys, and And Then We Danced make useful companions to Billy Elliot, all filed under 1980s, ballet, and ballet school.