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Billy Elliot

Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.

2000 1 hour 50 minutes
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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, stumbles 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 for the royal Ballet school in London.

Released

28th September 2000

23 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 50 minutes

Finishes at 10:06am

Budget

$5,000,000 ($7,738,500 today)

Revenue $109,280,263Profit

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Directed by

Stephen Daldry

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Written by

Lee Hall

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Ratings and awards

Nominated for 3 Oscars. 55 wins & 71 nominations total

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    7.7/10

  • Rotten Tomatoes Logo

    85%

  • Metacritic Logo

    74%

  • TMDb Logo

    76%

  • Trakt Logo

    78%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    78%

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