Flashdance meets Trainspotting in Billy Elliot, a modern-day fairytale by first-time filmmaker Stephen Daldry that will disarm you with its grit and steal your heart with its charm.
As a boy growing up in northern England, life offers few options for 11-year-old Billy Elliot, apart from eventually joining his widowed father and older brother in the coal pits that are the town's life blood.
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