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Billy Elliot
Comedy, 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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy heartfelt coming-of-age stories about pursuing an unconventional dream against social pressure and family hardship.
- Tone
- uplifting, bittersweet, warm
- Payoff
- inspiration, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- self-expression, family, class conflict, artistic ambition, acceptance
- Setting
- 1980s, working-class mining town amid a labor strike
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