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This is Billy Elliot The Musical, the spectacular show with the heart, humor and passion to be named TIME Magazine's 'Best Musical of the Decade!' Based on the international smash-hit film, and featuring a score by music legend Elton John, Billy Elliot is an astonishing theatrical experience that will stay with you forever.
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Running time 110 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English Budget 3 million (5 million) Box office £72,853,509 ($111,099,009) Billy Elliot is a 2000 about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer, set in north-eastern England during the. It was produced by and Jon Finn, music composed by, co-produced by, and, distributed by and, written by and directed. The film stars as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the, as his coal miner father, as Billy's bullying older brother, and as his ballet teacher. The film was theatrically released on 29 September 2000 by Universal Pictures and Focus Features. It received positive reviews from critics and it earned £72,853,509 on a £3 million budget.
In 2001, author was commissioned to write the novelisation of the film based on Lee Hall's screenplay. The story was adapted for the stage as in 2005; it opened in Australia in 2007 and on in 2008. Contents. Plot In 1984, Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old from the fictional Everington in, England, loves to dance and has hopes of becoming a professional ballet dancer. Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on (the latter being the union bully), and also his maternal grandmother, who has and once aspired to be a professional dancer.
Billy's father sends him to the gym to learn boxing, but Billy dislikes the sport. He happens upon a ballet class that is using the gym while their usual basement studio is temporarily being used as a soup kitchen for the striking miners. Unknown to Jackie, Billy joins the ballet class. When Jackie discovers this, he forbids Billy to take any more ballet. But, passionate about dancing, Billy secretly continues lessons with the help of his dance teacher, Sandra Wilkinson. Wilkinson believes Billy is talented enough to study at the in London, but due to Tony's arrest during a skirmish between police and striking miners, Billy misses the audition.
Wilkinson tells Jackie about the missed opportunity, but fearing that Billy will be considered to be gay, both Jackie and Tony are outraged at the prospect of him becoming a professional ballet dancer. Over Christmas, Billy learns his best friend, Michael, is gay. Although Billy is not, he is supportive of his friend.
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Later, Jackie catches Billy dancing in the gym and realises his son is truly gifted; he resolves to do whatever it takes to help Billy attain his dream. Wilkinson tries to persuade Jackie to let her pay for the audition, but he replies that Billy is his son and he does not need charity.
Jackie attempts to to pay for the trip to London, but Tony stops him. Instead, his fellow miners and the neighbourhood raise some money and Jackie pawns Billy's mother's jewelry to cover the cost, and Jackie takes him to to audition. Although very nervous, Billy performs well, but he punches another boy in frustration at the audition, fearing that he has ruined his chances of attaining his dream. He is sternly rebuked by the review board, but when asked what it feels like when he is dancing, he describes it as being 'like electricity'. Seemingly rejected, Billy returns home with his father. Sometime later, the Royal Ballet School sends him a letter telling him he has been accepted, and he leaves home to attend. Fourteen years later in 1998, Billy, now 25, takes the stage to perform the Swan in, as Jackie, Tony, and Michael watch from the audience; his father visibly moved by the performance.
(pictured here in 2015) played the title character for his debut role in the film. Billy Elliot advert on a lorry in London Theatre Billy Elliot was originally released at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival under the title 'Dancer.'
It was later decided to re-title the film Billy Elliot to avoid confusion with which was also at Cannes that year. Billy Elliot was theatrically released on 29 September 2000 by and. Home media released Billy Elliot was released on and on 25 October 2001 and on on 10 January 2012.
Reception The film holds an 85% approval rating on; the consensus states: ' Billy Elliot is a charming movie that can evoke both laughter and tears.' Gave the film three out of four stars, complimenting the performances of, and in particular. Awards and nominations.
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Bibliography. – The Guardian, 28 September 2014 Further reading. Jacqueline Jones, 'Small Towns and Big Dreams: Meditations on Two Mining-Town Movies' Perspectives on History (Feb 2011) 49#2 pp 30-31, compares film with '. External links. on.
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