Billy Elliot poster
Director Stephen Daldry
Writer Lee Hall

Billy Elliot

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

Release Date: 2000-09-28

Duration: 110 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Julie Walters
    Mrs Wilkinson
  • Stephen Mangan
    Ballet Doctor
  • Jamie Bell
    Billy Elliot
  • Zoë Bell
    Sandra
  • Jamie Draven
    Tony Elliot
  • Barbara Leigh-Hunt
    Vice-Principal
  • Gary Lewis
    Jackie Elliot
  • Stuart Wells
    Michael Caffrey
  • Patrick Malahide
    Principal
  • Jean Heywood
    Grandma