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The family pulls together in the end, but not before violent arguments. Though softened by an English North Country/Scottish Border accent, the f… word, pronounced as rhyming with “cook,” is heard in every sentence of some speeches. Billy and his friend Michael curse matter-of-factly. Billy’s father and older brother Tony curse continually.
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The film reveals the sacrifices required of striking union workers and their families, as well as the anguish of a community whose way of life is doomed in the face of new economic conditions. The family’s struggle is set against the background of the 1984 English coal miner’s strike in which the British government, determined to drastically reform the country’s bloated and inefficient coal industry, crushed the miner’s union, and changed English society. “Billy Elliot” also illustrates the far-reaching influence that a dedicated teacher can have on a child’s development. (Billy lovingly takes care of his grandmother.) In this film, a friendship between two boys survives the fact that one is homosexual and the other probably is not. The film illuminates the tensions and sorrows of a family dealing with the loss of its wife and mother while the grandmother gently sinks into senility. It demonstrates the redemptive agency of love in a family under enormous stress and shows a father coming through as a parent after some egregious errors. This warmhearted story shows children the rewards of perseverance in following their own star despite parental or popular opinion.
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It's a pair that doesn't seem to work well together on paper - the Slider and the Modfather share a fondness for Northern soul and nice clothes, but their boogie and sophisti-pop appear to be polar opposites - but it all works well here, since they're both terrific singles artists. There are a couple of stragglers here - Stephen Gately, Eagle-Eye Cherry, and the Clash have a song a piece - but for the most part, this is devoted to two great British pop stars, Marc Bolan and Paul Weller. But, if you can ignore that dialogue and concentrate on the music, you have a real nice disc of British pop.
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Like any soundtrack with aspirations of being hip, the soundtrack to the heart-warming Brit comedy-drama Billy Elliot is peppered with dialogue from the film - a tactic that was entertaining in 1993, when Reservoir Dogs popularized it, but it had lost its charm by 2000.