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Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes!
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Portland Oregonian
An exquisite, ecstatic film, crude in its characterizations and plotting, yes, but extraordinary in its capacity for elation and its hard-earned sentimentality.
90
Rolling Stone
Bell explodes onscreen in a performance that cuts to the heart without sham tearjerking. Look for Billy to blast off.
88
USA Today
You'd be hard-pressed to find a purer expression of rapture in a film this year than the one that opens Billy Elliot.
88
Chicago Tribune
A triumph that deserves a broad audience.
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Boston Globe
Bell is utterly persuasive as the boy literally yearning to leap beyond the oppressively apparent confines of his world.
