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Billy Elliot
Directed by Stephen Daldry
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… From TMDB
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Billy Elliot is a 2000 drama comedy music film, directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis and Julie Walters.
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60 of 127 · most liked firstThe film Billy Elliot is set in 1984. There's a scene where he visits a mobile library and there's a copy of Clive Barker's Cabal on the shelf. It wasn't published until 1988.
neutral · AI labelView post →8-year-old who has a friend over: "Dad! Lorenzo has watched an R-rated movie! Can I watch it too?" Me, bracing myself: "Uh, maybe. Which movie is it?" 8yo: "Billy Elliot!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Only quarter of a century late to finally watching BILLY ELLIOT. Absolutely magical film & made me feel so good, which is what I wanted tonight. Cracking T REX Score & loved the way it threaded the miners strike into its narrative
positive · AI labelView post →And still every day I ask WHERE is Tom Holland’s movie musical? Let the boy from Billy Elliot DANCE!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Argent Street in the former mining village of Easington Colliery, Co Durham in North East England. A number of locations in the village were used as locations for 'Billy Elliot', the British coming-of-age film starring Jamie Bell. #england #durham #billyelliot #film #monochrome #photography
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway today out of nowhere I remembered that the movie Billy Elliot exists so I’m watching it tomorrow
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching BILLY ELLIOT (2000). Director: Stephen Daldry. Jamie Bell, Julie Walters. Before Elton John made the musical that discovered Tom Holland, Jamie Bell originated role of troubled working-class boy who unexpectedly finds purpose in dance. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Billy Elliot is still outstanding. This is the type of film I love.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday JAMIE BELL! 🎂 Talented British actor and dancer who made a splash with BILLY ELLIOT, winning a BAFTA, and has continued to impress alongside co-stars like JULIE WALTERS and ANNETTE BENING in FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL. #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Movies released on September 29: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Avalanche (1978) Death on the Nile (1978) River of Death (1989) Billy Elliot (2000) Remember the Titans (2000) Serenity (2005) No Time to Die (2021) MST3K: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9AZ... #movies 🎬 #anniversary #MST3K
neutral · AI labelView post →After over 20 years, yesterday evening I watched Billy Elliot once again—I still like the film, the soundtrack, and I still find the end is a little too sloppy… but I’m positive about that film, despite my different perspective about dancing, as you can see below. #gay #nsfw #twink #illustration
positive · AI labelView post →#NewWaveNovember Absolutely love The Jam, they'll probably make a few appearances throughout the month haha. This song has been featured in a few pieces of media throughout the years, but my favorite is the movie Billy Elliot!
neutral · AI labelView post →#MatthewsMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 9: Music from a movie or would be perfect for a movie, or a song based on a movie or that should be made into a movie Town Called Malice by the Jam used in the movie Billy Elliot
neutral · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 26: Protest demonstration in a movie Billy Elliot
neutral · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky Day~ 27 Ballet in a movie 🎬 Billy Elliot (2000)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight while putting together this puzzle I learned that my sister has never seen the movie Billy Elliot and didn’t even know there was a musical version. I HAVE FAILED HER.
neutral · AI labelView post →listening to this episode, slowly coming to the realization that there were two distinct movies, one called Billy Elliot and one called Billy Madison, and they were not actually the same film
neutral · AI labelView post →Twn films to get to know me (no particular order) - Titan: AE - Star Wars: Episode I - Good will hunting - Digimon: The Movie - Tron: Legacy - The Wind Rises - The Banshees of Inisherin - Interstellar - Billy Elliot - Atlantis
neutral · AI labelView post →Warner Bros. will be releasing "PADDINGTON 2" on 4K Ultra HD on February 11.. > Following the worldwide hit "Paddington," one of the most successful family films of all time, this much-anticipated sequel finds Paddington (Ben Whishaw) happily settled with the Brown family in London, where he has become a popular member of the local community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. > > Reuniting many of the original film's cast while welcoming those in new roles, "Paddington 2" stars…
neutral · AI labelView post →I did this as a kid. We were going on vacation and my parents took us to blockbuster to pick a movie to watch in the van My friends all raved about this Adam Sandler movie where he goes back to school. 30 minutes into watching Billy Elliot, I was wondering when Adam Sandler was going to show up
neutral · AI labelView post →#bales2025moviechallenge - an artistic child Billy Elliot (2000) Each re-watch this film becomes more perfect to me. I’ve never seen the “underdog prevails despite all odds” done better. It’s Rocky-esque, but better than Rocky. 10/10⭐️
positive · AI labelView post →Billy Elliot I think I've misunderstood what you mean by "dad movie" but this is the movie with my favorite dad.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge @omacolt.bsky.social Jun 25 A movie about an underdog Billy Elliot (2000) A working-class boy in a coal-mining town secretly takes ballet lessons, defying family and cultural expectations.
neutral · AI labelView post →#SportsMovieMadness (7) Movie featuring combat sport (boxing) 🥊 Billy Elliot
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight, watched the movie Billy Elliot. Had seen clips on YouTube, and finally ordered the DVD. I know this is a movie from 2000, but I had never seen it. Dreams realized and dreams unrealized moved me. For some reason breaking up the piano for firewood hit me the hardest. Cried a bit. 😥
positive · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 12 - Riot in a Movie 🎬 Billy Elliot
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb One movie 🎥 — Billy Elliot One album 💿 — NGDA by Taemin One TV show 📺 — Doctor Who
neutral · AI labelView post →April 29. Foreign Language film? Billy Elliot - 2000 A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. Without subtitles, I had no idea what they were saying. #AprilFilmChallenge
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2026FilmChallenge #Bales2026MovieChallenge Oct. 29 - film made between 1990 and 2010 everyone should see Billy Elliot (2000) #filmsky #moviesky
positive · AI labelView post →June 28: riot in movie #JuneMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 🎬 Billy Elliot (2000)
neutral · AI labelView post →THEATER THURSDAY #theaterthursday BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL music by Elton John, book byLee Hall. Based on the film about a coal miner's son who takes ballet lessons.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched #BillyElliot for #FamilyFilmEvening. It's aged rather well, though possibly a little too nostalgic for the bad old days. Kids have gleefully learned a whole new stable of swearwords and how to use them. Youngest is now going round trying to talk in County Durham accent. A bit of a relief from their endless Americanisms. Would love some suggestions from the fediverse for other family films suitable for tweens/young teens with perhaps slightly challenging subjects...
positive · AI labelView post →Watched an old favourite of mine, Billy Elliot. I first watched that film at the same age as the main character, when I was 11 or 10, and I kept having to ask my parents questions about the context for a lot of the stuff And now as an adult at 33, I cry my eyes out at so much of it
positive · AI labelView post →#AGoodPlace did u know Tom Holland of Spiderman, Odyssey fame was a Billy Elliot at age 12. He garnered great accolades for his first movie The Impossible at age 16.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge Day 30 - someone performs or practices ballet in a movie Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot (2000) #filmsky #moviesky ...a talented young boy becomes torn between his love of dance and the disintegration of his family...
neutral · AI labelView post →Went to a double feature movie night of Billy Elliot (2000) and Dames (1934) Billy is an almost perfect film that makes me ugly cry sad and happy tears throughout. Every. Damn. Time. Dames was good, love me some Busby choreo - wasn't ready for the many cut outs of Ruby Keeler’s face though…
positive · AI labelView post →22 February 1950 – Julie Walters, 76, English actress. Boys from Blackstuff (1983) Educating Rita (West End/film OscarNom) Victoria Wood * Personal Services * Stepping Out * dinnerladies * Billy Elliot (OscarNom) Mama Mia * Harry Potter * Murder * Mo * A Short Stay in Switzerland * Brooklyn (2016)
neutral · AI labelView post →The ultimate feel-good movie? Billy Elliot 💫
positive · AI labelView post →At the Royal Bah-lay (as said like Billy Elliot). Here for Like Water for Chocolate. A movie I meant to see since it came out but still haven't. Only had like over 30 years?! (I guess I could have also read the originating book). The ballet so far, so gorgeous. #IntermissionPost
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 25th Anniversary to BILLY ELLIOT, which is the film I reviewed in my first ever published review (for the University of Exeter newspaper)
neutral · AI labelView post →#WomenPhotographers 📸 Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a Finnish photographer known for her impactful documentary work in North East England, particularly in the Byker community, Newcastle. Her project Step by Step on dance schools inspired Lee Hall’s play Dancer, which later became the film Billy Elliot.
neutral · AI labelView post →#AlphabetMusicals #MusicChallenge @philipcarman.bsky.social Day 5: "Expressing Yourself" (original cast of BILLY ELLIOT, 2005). Written by Sir Elton John and Lee Hall (the latter screenwriter of the 2000 source film), vocals led by Liam Mower and Brad Kavanagh. youtu.be/LIBe0u2_3_o
neutral · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? Billy Elliot (2000) Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →In a similar vein, last night we watched “Bank of Dave” (Netflix 2023). Sort of a mix of “Billy Elliot” and the Hugh Grant film “The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but came down a Mountain”. It hit the spot.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, horrid Thatcher's Breadline Britain. They let the movie Billy Elliot which took place during the Miner's Strike use London Calling in the soundtrack. #paws4music
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Lets me believe in myself’: why Billy Elliot is my feelgood movie www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... @bertrom.bsky.social @hollanddaaze.bsky.social @robklippel.bsky.social @george-1788pow.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →It was this logic that once grouped BILLY ELLIOT into a trivia round on “90s movies,” costing my team the round, because we knew the answer could never been BILLY ELLIOT, a movie that did not come out in the 90s, and I’ve never been angrier at a trivia round in my life.
negative · AI labelView post →December movie day 11: Billy Elliot Instead of boxing, the 11y old Billy become interested in ballet. His father, a coal miner, is not happy that his son has chosen such a girly activity. But Billy can't stop dancing.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is an attempt at a list of the greats, not favourites which is different. Billy Elliot - genius original production was better than the film - may be the best musical with the worst score. Oliver has a tremendous score and a very threadbare book. Floyd Collins is superb. May add to my list.
neutral · AI labelView post →That’s the plot of hit film (and musical, stage recording davon hittet imo even harder als der film) Billy Elliot right there 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time I hear ‘Town Called Malice, it takes me back to that magnificent Billy Elliot film. #totp
neutral · AI labelView post →22 February 1950 – Julie Walters, 75, English actress With Victoria Wood (1981-2000) Boys from the Black Stuff (1983) * Educating Rita (Stage + film OscarNom) Personal Services * Billy Elliot (OscarNom) Harry Potter * Mamma Mia! * Mo * Brooklyn * Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool * Wild Rose (2019)
neutral · AI labelView post →Before seeing Billy Elliot, which became a life-long favorite movie, I already loved A Town Called Malice. Now I love it even more since it forever invokes that great movie. R.I.P. Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam. www.avclub.com/rick-buckler...
positive · AI labelView post →For me the movie Billy Elliot is basically "Let's see what the rest of Charlie Brown's teacher's family is up to, oh look, they're all miners and ballet dancers" because I literally did not understand a goddamn word anyone said.
neutral · AI labelView post →The BFI has a list of films to see before you're 15 which might be worth exploring - something like Billy Elliot, about a slightly timid 11yo learning to be less timid, more ght be appropriate? Definitely indy Jones ahead of Star wars www.bfi.org.uk/lists/50-fil...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's always fun to see Billy Elliot in a movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone on my t/l mentioned the Billy Elliot film, and i had a massive flash to my boy Adam appearing at the end, and the loud meep i let out when i saw him. (i had no idea he was in the film) (no, *y’all* watched Swan Lake [REDACTED] times)
positive · AI labelView post →The one actor played Billy Elliot in that movie when he was a child.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some people seem surprised that Tom Holland can dance. He created the part of Billy Elliot the Musical — of course he can dance! [No disrespect to Jamie Bell who created the role in the original film — he was also fabulous.] Thanks for posting — I love, love, love to see men who dance!
neutral · AI labelView post →In the pantheon of great child performances, Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot has to be in anybody’s Top 10. But there’s so much more to it that just a boy who wants to dance.
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