..dance-on billy..

Rating: 10/10 (16 May 2006)

I'm so happy to see so many people love this movie - to me, it is a textbook for overly-spoiled American kids. It is just wonderful to be able to relate to the problems in this family, and then seeing them getting resolved. Billy is a revelation - I love grandma !! All that background story about the mines and the comedy that's in it - then the sudden break-down of Dad - is so real-life. I wasn't the least bit surprised to see the little, sissy boy in there - and thought Billy was a champ the way he handled it. The ballet-teacher was a female drag-queen, and wonderful.....I wonder if she picked-up her daughter was hot for Billy? The whole story was so full of every-day happenings, but the grandest theme and point made was the total turn-around by Dad. I had the greatest empathy with him when they went to the ballet-school. He knew he was way out-of-place, but stuck to his plan to do the best he could by a son he didn't truly understand.
As others have written, the ending was so appropriate - the sissy all grown-up with her lover and in drag, and those two macho miners not the least bit bothered. To have Billy be the star in Bourne's "Swan Lake" was a shocker - but should have been expected. How many Americans do you think have seen that ballet ? This kind of movie tears me up, because they are so real - keep them coming ! Double-bravo to all -