

The film garnered three Oscar nominations and made a star of Jamie Bell as well as spawned a musical that has won 80 awards including ten Tony Awards and five Olivier Awards in the fifteen years since it first debuted. But since it first burst onto screens 17 years ago, this small, low-budget film has grown into. Billy Elliot is the triumphant and heartwarming story of an 11-year-old boy from a working-class family who discovers a passion for dance that will change. Soon, Billy has ditched the boxing, instead secretly attending the ballet class with Mrs. His life is forever changed when he stumbles upon Mrs Wilkinson’s (Julie Walters) ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson and before long, he finds himself immersed in ballet, demonstrating a raw talent and becoming torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. Billy Elliot is a distinctly British story about dancing, labor rights, gender, class, and sexuality.

Cronins novel The Stars Look Down and directed by Stephen Daldry, this 2000 film spawned a highly successful West End musical, a collaboration between the films original screenwriter Lee Hall and Elton John. The fictitious town of Everington is the village of Easington Colliery, alongside Easington itself (mirroring the events of the film, the actual colliery. The film was written by Lee Hall (Rocketman) and directed by legendary theatre director Stephen Daldy and first unleashed on audiences back in 2000.īilly Elliot is a heart-warming tale of an eleven-year-old coal miner’s son (Jamie Bell) growing up during the miners’ strike in the North of England. Billy Elliot is the story of an eleven-year-old boy who escapes the harshness of his existence by discovering his passion for ballet.

Park Circus has announced that they are to re-release Billy Elliot back into cinemas later this year to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary. The film is about an 11 year old boy (Billy Elliot) who tries to pursue a career in Ballet despite negative stereotyping. The visual text Billy Elliot was created in 2000 and directed by Stephen Daldry. Pin Image courtesy of Park Circus/Universal The life of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, a coal miners son in Northern England, is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson. Billy Elliot Traditional ideas about stereotypical gender roles can be challenged or supported with different characters and environments.
