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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 upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Amidst the picket lines and coal dust of a fractured 1984 England, a young boy finds an unlikely escape through the grace of ballet. This sharp, soulful story balances the tension of a collapsing mining community with the explosive energy of newfound passion.

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