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When Billy Elliot chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father, a coal miner, but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London, Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams...Product Identifiers
EAN5050582342628
eBay Product ID (ePID)6048566655
Product Key Features
ActorJamie Bell, Julie Walters
Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Film/TV TitleBilly Elliot
Release Year2005
FeaturesWidescreen, Closed Caption, Special Edition\The Real Billy Elliot Diaries\From Screen To Stage\Breaking Free The Making Of\Deleted Scenes\Extended Scenes\The Music
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs2
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
Additional InformationBilly Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an 11-year-old boy living in North East England in the mid-1980s. While his gruff father and brother are taking part in a massive coal miners strike, Billy goes to boxing lessons and furtively plays his dead mother's piano out of loneliness. One day Billy notices a ballet class nearby. Intrigued, he begins practising and taking lessons from Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Walters), a tough-minded teacher. Billy begins to fall in love with ballet but keeps his lessons a secret from his family, who struggle to put food on the table while the strike drags on. When his father finally learns the truth, a family crisis erupts, and Billy struggles to prove that dancing is more than just a hobby--it's his dream. BILLY ELLIOT is a touching and heart-warming story that avoids cliches by setting the story in the grim mining town of northern England amid economic hardship and sacrifice, showing the joy and release that dancing provides for Billy. Newcomer Jamie Bell, who does all his own dancing in the film, deserves special credit for his performance as Billy.
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleBilly Elliot