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BILLY ELLIOT
(2000)
List of alternative names
- DANCER
- Copyright date
- 2000
- Production start date
- 23/08/1999
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
- Screened at various festivals under its initial title "Dancer".
Library Synopsis
Comedy drama. The story begins in 1984 at the height of the miners' strike in Durham, where Billy's elder brother, Tony, and his father are protesting with their fellow workers on the picket lines. Billy's father wants him to take boxing classes, but Billy is much more interested in the ballet class which takes place at the same gym. The teacher...
Top five credits
- Director
- DALDRY, Stephen
- ©/Production Company
- Tiger Aspect
- Presented by
- Working Title Films
- Presented/Developed by
- BBC Films
- In association with
- Arts Council of England
Top five cast
- Mrs Wilkinson
- WALTERS, Julie
- dad
- LEWIS, Gary
- Tony
- DRAVEN, Jamie
- grandmother
- HEYWOOD, Jean
- Billy
- BELL, Jamie