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Drama, Comedy, Music 111 min R
Rotten Tomatoes85%Metacritic74IMDb
Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.
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.
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Effortless, character-led, classical in form and earnest.
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Stephen Daldry's switch to the screen brings us an invigorating and surprising tale about a ballet-dancing boy
Stephen Daldry's debut feature tells the story of an 11-year-old coal miner's son in northern England who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. The movie holds few surprises; you always know where it's going, and sometimes you can predict exactly what the characters are going to say. But Daldry finds honest feeling and…
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