Fresh
It's not often that you overhear someone say with real feeling after the credits have rolled: 'That was a wonderful movie.'
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
Billy Elliot
Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.
2000 · 1h 51m · R
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
Stephen Daldry
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Stephen Daldry Director
- Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot
- Julie Walters as Mrs. Wilkinson
- Gary Lewis as Jackie Elliot
- Jean Heywood as Grandmother
- Jamie Draven as Tony Elliot
- Stuart Wells as Michael Caffrey
- Mike Elliot as George Watson
- Billy Fane as Mr Braithwaite
- Nicola Blackwell Cast
- Colin MacLachlan Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Bravo! to everyone involved.
Paul Tatara, CNN.com
Fresh
Billy Elliot is a feel-good movie that you don't have to feel bad about feeling good about.
Peter Brunette, Film.com
Rotten
Not trusting the audience to have any reaction that has not been completely stage-managed, [Hall and Daldry] lay on the sentimentality and the cliches as thick as they can, which is pretty thick.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
The best dance film in ages.
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
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