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2000 Certificate 15
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Features the films BILLY ELLIOT and SIXTY SIX, which both chronicle an adolescent boy's difficulties with his family.In BILLY ELLIOT, the titular character (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 .. Read more

Starring Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven
Director Stephen Daldry
Genres Comedy, Drama

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Billy Elliot

Features the films BILLY ELLIOT and SIXTY SIX, which both chronicle an adolescent boy's difficulties with his family.
In BILLY ELLIOT, the titular character (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.
SIXTY SIX is set in the summer of 1966 and England is swept by World Cup fever. 12-year-old Bernie Reuben is also excited but for a different reason. He is looking forward to his Bar Mitzvah, the day when he becomes a man. However, the 1966 World Cup Final is scheduled for the very day of his Bar Mitzvah, leading to the possibility of a complete disaster for Bernie.

Starring Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells, Nicola Blackwell
Director Stephen Daldry
Studio UCA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 46 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 46 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy, Drama
Language DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Subtitles DVD: English
Released Production year: 2000

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Blu-ray: 19 Sep 2011

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    • "...If Dickens had written FLASHDANCE after seeing THE FULL MONTY, it probably would have come out something like this infectious, feel-good bundle of ambition in the face of adversity..." -- 3.5 out of 4 stars

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    • Rated - 5.0 stars  

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      A great british classic

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      A fantastic film - I've seen this many times before and it gets better each time.

      A great british film, set during the miners strike in the 80s, ... read more »

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      BILLY ELLIOT

      This is an extremely good film and well acted. There is a lot of swearing and not suitable for the young. It makes you relise how tough it was during the miners... read more »

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    Billy Elliot heading back to the big screen?

    • 08 Jun 2009

    Sir Elton John is in talks to take Billy Elliot back to the big screen. John wrote the music for the theatre adaptation of the 2000 movie, which was written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Now the trio want to take the story about a young ballet dancer full circle by re-making the movie as a musical. Speaking after the Broadway adaptation of Billy Elliot The Musical scooped ten Tony Awards on Sunday (07Jun09), Hall revealed, "We've been talking about making the musical back into a... Read more

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