

Billy Elliot
Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $109.3M
- Language
- English
- dancing
- friendship
- dreams
- dancing class
- northern england
- workers' quarter
- strike
- homophobia
- hope
- mentor
- sadness
- socialism
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France, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereAustin Film Festival12 Oct 2000
- Theatrical (limited)R13 Oct 2000
- TheatricalPG-1310 Nov 2000
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1528 Sept 2000
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM2 Nov 2000
CanadaCA
- Theatrical13 Oct 2000
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical8 Feb 2001
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1631 Jan 2001
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1216 Mar 2001
- Physical1219 Jan 2004
CroatiaHR
- PremiereMotovun Film Festival4 Aug 2000
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+1 Feb 2001
- PhysicalDVD, FilmX1 Nov 2007
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical119 Feb 2001
FinlandFI
- PremiereK-12Oulu International Children's Film Festival1 Nov 2000
- TheatricalK-79 Feb 2001
FranceFR
- PremiereDirectors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival19 May 2000
- TheatricalTP20 Dec 2000
- TVTPCStar26 Dec 2025
- TVTPCanal+ Grand Écran21 Jul 2026
- TVTPCiné+ Family19 Sept 2026
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Billy Elliot was released on 28 September 2000.
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CinemaSerf
10/21/2023
I hadn't seen this film since it was released when it was shown recently as a part of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival. The fact that it was chosen by the kids of today in what would have been just as unlikely a setting for this film as the North of England speaks volumes as to it's effect on challenging and breaking the stereotypical moulds that the British working class in the early 1980s was steeped in. The sylph-l…
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