Billy Elliot

2000 · Directed by Stephen Daldry

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 stubbles 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 the audition is for the royal Ballet school in London.

Cast: Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Patrick Malahide, Zoë Bell, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Stephen Mangan, Trevor Fox, Jean Heywood, Charlie Hardwick

Rating: 7.589/10 from 3,332 votes