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Billy Elliot

Summary: A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Release Date: November 10, 2000

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Stephen Daldry

Writer: Lee Hall

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: StudioCanal, Working Title Films, BBC Films, WT2 Productions

Distributor: HBO Max, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,995,263

International: $ 87,287,755

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1980s 1990s adultery affection against the odds apparition apron audition ballet ballet dancer ballet dancing ballet school ballet teacher bare butt bath bathroom bathtub beating best friend billy club blood boogie book bookmobile boxer boxing boxing gloves boxing helmet boxing lesson boxing trainer boy dresses as a girl boy punches boy boy wears a dress boy wears lipstick breakfast tray breakthrough brother brother relationship brother sister relationship bully bus carpet sweeper cemetery changing room character name as title chase child protagonist child's point of view childhood childhood crush christmas christmas lights cigarette cigarette smoking circular staircase class classroom coal coal mine coal miner coming of age coming out compassion cross dressing crush crying cutting grass dance dance class dance instructor dance school dance teacher dancer dancing dancing in the street dead mother death death of mother death of wife demonstration destroying a piano doctor dragging a stick dress dressing up drunkenness durham coalfield earphones egg electricity elevator embarrassment escalator extramarital affair face slap falling into a bathtub family relationships father daughter relationship father hits son father son relationship fear fence ferry following a dream friend friendship friendship between boys gargling gay bashing gay boy gay character gay crush gay friend gay kid gay slur gender stereotype grandmother grandson relationship grave graveyard gym hammer homophobia hugging husband wife relationship impatience independent film infidelity inspiration jewelry jewelry box joy judge jumping on a bed kiss kiss on the cheek labor union laborer letter letter of acceptance librarian library lie lipstick listening to music london england loss of mother loss of wife mail makeup male dancer male police officer male protagonist martial arts milk mine shaft miner miners' strike mining town mobile library money montage mooning mother daughter relationship mother son relationship motivation music box newcastle upon tyne nightstick north east england northern england pawnbroker pawning jewelry photograph physical exam pianist piano picket line pillow pillow fight police police officer police van postman poverty punched in the face punching bag record player recording reference to fred astaire reference to ginger rogers reference to transvestism rehearsal riot riot gear riot police riot shield royal ballet school royal haymarket theatre running sacrifice sadness scab school school uniform self discovery self expression sex sexism sexuality shaving sledge hammer sliding door slow motion scene snowing snowman soccer ball soccer shirt spinning stage performance standing on a table step dance stick strike stuffed toy animal surrogate mother swan swan lake talent tap dancing teacher teacher student relationship teaching tears telephone call theater audience timeframe 1980s timeframe 1990s toilet tombstone tragic event trans character triumph trust tutu underwear unfaithfulness urination using a carpet sweeper as an air guitar violence vito russo test passed washing widower working class year 1984

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