Yes, there's actually a lot going on in this little movie, andįirst-time feature director Stephen Daldry, turning his talents from Homosexuality and adorable but unrequited crush on our apparently-straight-but-still-only-11-year-old hero is here treated Mentioned Billy's wee friend Michael (Stuart Wells), whose budding Who likes to wander off before breakfast. Scab), but there's an increasingly senile grandmother in the picture Son Who's Gotta Dance and a protracted strike (which leads to frictionīetween teenage son Tony and his father when Dad contemplates turning So, not only does this family have to deal with Dead Mum's Ghost, a Out the old man might have a heart after all. He, of course, thinks Billy's allowance money is going to payįor boxing lessons and when he finds out that his youngest hasĪbandoned padded gloves for toeshoes, he hits the roof at first. His wife (Janine Birkett, seen only in hallucination) died. Of guy who's been raising two headstrong sons single-handedly since Rounding out the cast is the stolid Scottish actor Gary Lewis asīilly's father (a.k.a "Dad"), a macho, filled-with-impotent-rage kind Wilkinson, filling in for her "October Sky" To yet another tragic muse (a chain-smoking Julie Walters as dance Kid in the title role (freckle-faced newcomer Jamie Bell), in addition "Billy Elliot," which like its predecessor also features a very cute Hey, if you even remotely liked "October Sky," you should love The "extremely talented" part probably refers to the writer's Is brought to them through an extremely talented young boy." (I know Immodestly puts it, "His tale triumphantly exposes the strong bondįormed within a community during a time of despair and the hope that In Newcastle during the 1984 British miners' strike, the backdropĪgainst which "Billy" takes place. Purportedly inspired by screenwriter Lee Hall's experiences growing up While not based on literal fact, the U.K.-set "Billy Elliot" was The confines of a small town to become a. Studio has come out with another heartwarming story about a small-town coal miner's son who, against the resistance of an initially domineering father, dreams of escaping Little more than a year and a half later, the same Memoirs of one Homer Hickam, who actually managed to get out of Appalachia and become a real-life rocket scientist. Small town to become a rocket scientist? That film was based on the Initially domineering father, dreams of escaping the confines of a Story about a coal miner's son who, against the resistance of an N 1999, Universal Pictures released "October Sky" to mildly popular if Jamie Bell trades punches for pirouettes in "Billy Elliot."
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