Billy Elliot
Movie • 2000 • Comedy
ReportSet against the background of the 1984 Miners' Strike, 11-year-old Billy Elliot stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes.
This movie contains 10 potentially triggering events.
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Tomasz
The main character has to hide his hobby, though, and there is a couple of scenes where his parent asks around about it or follows him quietly. They do find a way to deal with it and return to mutual support.
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Silod
Verbal fighting between male lead, his father, and his (grown) brother. The father punches the brother in the face and slams male lead repeatedly against a wall before he breaks free and runs.
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Silod
Male lead (aged 11) is slammed repeatedly against a wall by his father before breaking away and running. His dance instructor also slaps him after he crosses a line with her. Throughout the film, he is accused of being gay and ridiculed for his interest in dance.
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Is there addiction?
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A lot of characters smoke a lot, and a minor character is mentioned having alcohol addiction. Neither of these is very relevant to the plot
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Are animals abused?
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One pillow is ruined and you can see feathers flying everywhere, though.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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The father bursts out of the bathroom with shaving cream on his face, but we do not actually see him shave.
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No, but a minor character presumably has Alzheimer disease (they are helped and are never in any danger).
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Is there eye mutilation?
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No, however the father punches male lead's older brother in the face, possibly damaging his eye. We can clearly see blood in his eye.
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Does a parent die?
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Male lead's mother is recently deceased and the loss of her factors heavily into the strain on the family. We see many references to her, including a letter she wrote being read aloud, the father chopping up her piano for firewood out of desperation, and her appearance in the kitchen as male lead vividly remembers her scolding him for drinking milk straight from the bottle. We do not see her death or learn of how she died, but it is implied that her death was expected following an illness.
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Does someone cheat?
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A minor character is mentioned cheating.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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A parent has to destroy piano that their kid loved very much, but it is done out of desperation (they have no wood/no money to buy it), and the kid is sad but not crying or yelling.
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Are there ghosts?
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Billy's mom is dead, and he sees her in a scene around the middle of the movie but it's more like a memory than a ghost apparition.
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Does someone spit?
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42:54 someone gargles and spits into a sink.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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A lot of the scenes involve police, though, and the ongoing strike plays an important part in the main character's family members' lives. The police is not pro-government and protects the miners from the strike members.
Police officers are shown wearing helmets and holding see-through shields, chasing the leader of the strike, arresting him and beating him (there's blood, but it doesn't look like he needs to go to a hospital).
Children around eleven years old are shown on the same street, walking past still police officers and talking or watching the beating.
Police officers are shown wearing helmets and holding see-through shields, chasing the leader of the strike, arresting him and beating him (there's blood, but it doesn't look like he needs to go to a hospital).
Children around eleven years old are shown on the same street, walking past still police officers and talking or watching the beating.
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Does someone have cancer?
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We don’t know what illness the mother had
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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The main character's father has anger issues, though, and resorts to violence a couple of times. They do find a way to mutual understanding in the end.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Sort of; an angry mob throws food at a bus and tries to stop it, and we can see a character inside the bus who is very uncomfortable, but his breathing and vision are fine.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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the movie has two short episodes where a stedy camera shows us a character who must be jumping on a bed, and he appears and disappears from sight again. Neither lasts more than half a minute.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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People around Billy are sacred that he is gay because he likes ballet
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Tomasz
A character is shown wearing a dress, then a tutu, but it only causes light confusion and acceptance/indifference.
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Is there hate speech?
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Throughout the film, homosexual men are referred to as "poofs" and it is understood that being gay is unacceptable.
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There are some references to sex as the character's question male lead's sexuality. A girl informs him that her parents sleep in separate beds to prevent having sex.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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People at the strike try to stop the bus by jumping in front of it, but nobody is hurt by it.
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Male lead's older brother is beaten by riot police while entangled in a sheet. The sheet is stained red with his blood. In another scene, the father punches the older brother in the face, bloodying his nose and eye.
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