Billy Elliot is a British dramatic comedy written by Lee Hall and carried out by Stephen Daldry, left in 2000.

Synopsis

Billy (Beautiful Jamie) is a 11 year old child in 1984 (or 1985). He saw in a mining city in England, in a brick house identical to all those of the vicinity with his father Jackie (Gary Lewis), his Tony big brother (Jamie Draven) and his grandmother (Jean Heywood). His/her mother died. His/her father and his brother have a trade identical to that of all the men of the vicinity: underground worker. Billy, is still young for him, it goes to school and takes courses of boxing after the class. His/her father accompanies there and pushes it, believer that a success in this field will leave them the pecuniary difficulty in which they are. But it does not like boxing and he would prefer to make dance like the girls with the other end of the gymnasium. Then, in secrecy of his father, it goes to the dance rather than to boxing. It has talent and its professor, Mrs Wilkinson (Julie Walters), pushes it to proceed in this way and to try to enter a school of famous dance where it will be able to learn more than what she can teach to him. This naturally requires to reveal the truth with the father who has other concern in addition, the mine being threatened of closing by the government of Margaret Thatcher, like all the other mines of England at the same time. The father will understand finally that its lifestyle will not be saved: he gives up striking to pay this expenditure for Billy whereas Tony holds until the end, he agrees to see his son trying to have a better future by the dance in spite of his prejudices. He assists and ends up accompanying the upheavals in his country, his community and his family. Billy then makes a success of the examination of entry at the school of dance.

The film is completed on the father and the brother attending of the years afterwards a representation of the Lac of the swans whose Billy is the high-speed motorboat.

Distribution

Around film

  • most of the original soundtrack is drawn from the album Electric Warrior of T-Rex

External bond

  • the official site
  • '' Billy Elliot '' on Internet Movie Database

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