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Amazon.co.uk Review

Foursquare in the gritty-but-hearwarming tradition of Brassed Off and The Full Monty comes Billy Elliot, the first film of noted British theatrical director Stephen Daldry. The setting is County Durham in 1984, and things ‘oop North are even grimmer than usual: the miners’ strike is in full rancorous swing and 11-year-old Billy’s dad and older brother, miners both, are staunch on the picket lines. Billy’s got problems of his own. His dad’s scraped together the (more…)