Billy Elliot (2000)

There have been a number of times when, faced with a decision to make, I’ve chosen an alternative on nothing more than intuition. In retrospect, they have usually been the correct one to make (for me). After doing this a few times in my young and stupid days, I began to trust my subconscious. I thought about the process a lot but I was never able to figure out why it worked for me. Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) seems to have discovered his path to intuition as well. After discovering he sucked at boxing, he’s dared by a girl, Debbie Wilkinson (Nicola Blackwell), to try ballet. Boys never refuse a dare so he joins in and finds that he likes it and has potential, according to Debbie’s mum (Julie Walters), the teacher of the class. Now he has to figure out how to hide this girly activity from his coal miner dad who is near the centre of a 1984 UK miners’s strike.

Director:  Stephen Daldry; Billy Fane Writer:  Lee Hall Cast:
Jamie Bell -  Billy Elliot Jean Heywood -  Grandma Jamie Draven -  Tony Elliot Gary Lewis -  Dad (Jackie Elliot) Stuart Wells -  Michael Caffrey Mike Elliot -  George Watson Billy Fane -  Mr. Braithwaite Nicola Blackwell -  Debbie Wilkinson		Julie Walters -  Mrs. Wilkinson Carol McGuigan -  Librarian Joe Renton -  Gary Poulson Colin Maclachlan -  Mr. Tom Wilkinson Janine Birkett -  Billy’s Mum Trevor Fox -  PC Jeff Peverly Charlie Hardwick -  Sheila Briggs Denny Ferguson -  Miner