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Billy Elliot is a 2000 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall. Set in County Durham in North East England during the 1984–1985 miners' strike, the film is about a working-class boy who has a passion for ballet. His father objects, based on negative stereotypes of male ballet dancers. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, Gary Lewis as his father, Jamie Draven as…
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When you work hard you give more than 100% of your skills and knowledge, you are too focused on one activity to get closer to a goal. In 1984, a 12-year-old boy from an English mining town, in the midst of a coal miners' strike against the government of England, discovers that instead of boxing, as his father wants, he is passionate about dancing. One day at the gymnasium, Billy observes Mrs. Wilkinson's ballet clas…More
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