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Synopsis:
Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy
living in northeast England in the mid-1980s. While his
gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal
miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively
plays his dead mother's piano out of loneliness. One day
Billy notices a ballet class nearby. Intrigued, he begins
practicing and taking lessons from Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie
Walters), a tough-minded teacher. Billy begins to fall in
love with ballet but keeps his lessons a secret from his
family, who struggle to put food on the table while the
strike drags on. When his father finally learns the truth,
a family crisis erupts, and Billy struggles to prove that
dancing is more than just a hobby--it's his dream. BILLY
ELLIOT is a touching and heartwarming story that avoids
clichés by setting the story in the grim mining town of
northern England amid economic hardship and sacrifice,
showing the joy and release that dancing provides for
Billy. Newcomer Jamie Bell, who does all his own dancing
in the film, deserves special credit for his performance
as Billy.
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