Billy Elliot (2000)

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

110 min★ 7.7 · 154,175 votes

• Drama
• Music

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.

Release date

September 29, 2000

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Budget

$5,000,000

Box office

$109,280,263