Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot

  • Director: Stephen Daldry
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 10, 2000
  • Runtime: 1h 50min
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Dancer
  • "Billy Elliot" is a feature film released by United International Pictures, directed by Stephen David Daldry , with Lee Hall as the screenwriter, and starring Julie Walters , Cary Lennox Lewis, Jamie Draven, Jamie Bell, etc. The film was released in the UK on September 29, 2000.
    The film is set against the background of the strike of British mining workers in 1984. It tells the story of the 11-year-old son of a miner, Billy Elliott, breaking through numerous obstacles and bravely pursuing his ideals. 

    Details

    • Release date November 10, 2000
    • Filming locations Easington, Peterlee, County Durham, England, UK
    • Production companies StudioCanal, Working Title Films, BBC Films

    Box office

    Budget

    $5,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $21,995,263

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $215,681

    Gross worldwide

    $109,283,018

    Movie reviews

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    • By Grady 2022-08-01 14:46:54

      Billy Elliot--Find And Stick To What You Truly Like

      I originally wanted to title it "Dance Out of My Life, Carp Leaps from the Dragon's Gate", but now I found out that the names of the two films were mixed up. Could it be that they were translated by the same person? It's like a couplet... I don’t know if you are also confused like this. What you like is not necessarily a major that you can choose. If a person can do the job that he has always...

    • By Jany 2022-04-24 07:01:05

      It's a movie that I will remember for a long time

      Then dance, dance, dance, dance, as if forgetting everything, as if a fire was burning in your chest, as a free bird, as an electric current.

      The stubborn little boy is dancing, depressed, angry, kicking happily, swinging his arms, spinning, but full of emotion and vitality.

      Every character is good and beautiful.

      Weird little boys and girls, hazy feelings, just awakened age. Adults who don't leave their hands and grandma who are unconscious, middle-aged and old, hearts and...

    • By Everett 2022-04-24 07:01:05

      The broken thoughts when watching, have nothing to do with the film, just can't write a short review, it's here

      I've always felt that identity politics under political correctness is hypocritical, but I haven't been able to find the exact reason, and now I may have some clues. Under political correctness, new gender/orientation nouns and various appellations with LGBTQ….etc were invented. And strictly require people to use these new nouns. This is done so that people always identify others in terms of their sexuality/orientation. But "identity" itself is complex, our appearance,...

    • By Norene 2022-04-23 07:01:45

      "Billy Elliott": Dancing Life

      Text/November Rain

      Youth is throbbing, eager to express and express.

      Dance is elegant and enthusiastic, carrying dreams and life.

      There are not a few movies that describe adolescent children, but there are very few that are truly lifelike and amazing. Because this is a delicate age, with sensitive and delicate moods. If you simply use an adult's eyes to capture these details, it will become cliché if the depiction...

    • By Darius 2022-04-23 07:01:45

      Not a film review, just casual | What is talent

      Due to the limited number of words in the short review, I will briefly talk about it here in the long review.

      I think this film can explain what talent is very well. The daughter of a ballet teacher, Debbie, is as precocious and sensitive as Billy, but Debbie is not concerned about ballet itself. She is more likely to learn ballet because of her mother. She doesn't have much love for ballet, but the point she cares about is whether Billy is fancy or not. It can be said that it is the...

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    • By Randi 2023-08-14 12:43:53

      Inspirational elements alone, this film is only enough for four stars. But the background of the times (the miners' strike in 1984), and the performance of the protagonist's father made this film a...

    • By Arne 2023-08-05 22:24:20

      The clips of ballet practice and strike scenes and home situations are good, but the climax is not prominent. That Mike is a typical Zhang Can, and little Mike is so fucking handsome, he is very attractive to...

    • By Elinore 2023-07-26 13:17:06

      What does it feel like to have sex? At first, there was no feeling, and the body even stiffened. Slowly, there seemed to be a fire burning in the heart, and the whole person gradually disappeared, leaving only the current. The happiness of living in a peak experience is completely unimaginable. A touching movie, especially when Billy's father devotes everything to his son after smashing his dead wife's piano with a hammer. In a world of despair, the warmth of family love saves a...

    • By Anabelle 2023-07-15 03:59:45

      What touched me the most was my father. In my hometown, there was a neighbor girl who had a talent for long-distance running since she was a child. Unfortunately, she dropped out of school after only running to junior high school, went home to farm, and then got married. I don't know how many gifted children in China are killed by their father's ignorance and...

    • By Nick 2023-07-03 09:03:10

      What a strange thing. This film has many attractions for me, dance, Xiao Zhengtai, plot, and performance. But seeing that it was tepid at the end, my heartstrings were only plucked a few times when I recalled a certain scene, and the rest had no major...

    Movie plot

    11-year-old boy Billy Elliot ( Jamie Bell ornaments ) is the son of a coal miner, grew up and his father, brother live in a small town in northern England. He has to go to boxing training class every week. One day, in the training class, he came in contact with the ballet, which US Huan exquisite artistic immediately fascinated him, and the boy also made strict ballet instructor Mrs. Wilkinson ( Julie Walters ornaments ) She suddenly...
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    Evaluation action

    "Out of My World" does not blindly put pen and ink on the pursuit of ideals of persistent teenagers, but puts the story in a turbulent social background. The unique original soundtrack in the film is refreshing. The pop-style blues rock music is sometimes soothing and melancholic, sometimes lively and vigorous, and fluctuates with the mood of the little protagonist. The camera shift and the music match tacitly, mobilizing people's...
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    Movie quotes

    • Debbie: If you want, I'll show you me fanny.

      Billy: Nah. You're all right.

    • Mr. Braithwaite: You look like a right wanker to me, son.

    • Mrs. Wilkinson: This'll sound strange, Billy, but for some time now I've been thinkin' of the Royal Ballet School.

      Billy: Aren't you a bit old, miss?

      Mrs. Wilkinson: No, not me... you! I'm the bloody teacher!