Billy Elliot (2000)
"Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it."
Critics Score
🎬 80%
(RT: 85%, MC: 74) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jean Heywood as Grandma
Jamie Draven as Tony Elliot
Stuart Wells as Michael Caffrey
Mike Elliot as George Watson
Billy Fane as Mr Braithwaite
Is Billy Elliot good?
Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
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