Billy Elliot

AceofSpades

June 21, 2001

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This movie is worth watching. It's hardly the revelation the critics claimed it to be; critics seem to go positively ga-ga over any gay movie. I wonder why...?

But the film is pretty good. I've got some quibbles, but it was fun. The film has a very strong sense of place and time (some depressed Third World-esque British mining town under Thatcher) and the family stuff is all very compelling.