Billy Elliot/Sixty Six DVD

Billy Elliot (Dir. Stephen Daldry) (2000): Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it. Starring Julie Walters and newcomer Jamie Bell the film (based on a real-life story) follows the progress of little Billy Elliot a motherless 11 year-old from a poor Durham pit village. When young Billy chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father a coal miner but when his ballet instructor persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet School in London... Billy must make the choice between family responsibilities and his dreams... Billy Elliot received plenty of recognition at the Academy Awards picking up nominations for Best Supporting Actress Best Director and Best Screenplay. Sixty Six (Dir. Paul Weiland) (2006): It is the summer of '66 and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah and the day he becomes a man. However Bernie's family are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their wayward older son and the scale of Bernie's Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds Bernie's longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster... [show more]

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