One word "Fantastic"

Rating: 9/10 (3 October 2000)

Billy Elliot is a class act all the way, everybody involved in the production of this fine film deserve the highest accolades. Im glad to see the great response of some US users of IMDB. I grew up in similar surroundings to the title character and would have been around the same age during this period and I have to say that the filmmakers have created the time and atmosphere of Northern England in the early 1980s to perfection. I wish the very best of success to this production and hope that more viewers around the world can see and enjoy a truer slice of English life than the (not to take anything away from these films) "Notting Hill's" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" portrait of the UK. Utterly a Top Notch production.