Strikes the right chord

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2001)

Billy Elliot is a movie that really does the business.Forget some gaping holes in the story and the over use of swearing, this film has great charm showing one boy's discovery of dance and a world away from the squalor and bleakness of his home life during the UK miner's strike of the 1980's.Julie Walters, Gary Lewis and the remarkable Jamie Bell in his debut all give excellent performances. Stephen Daldry gives us a film with just the right mix of reality and sentimentality. Well worth seeing !