![]() ![]() Michael is attracted to Billy, who doesn't reciprocate, but seems unusually sophisticated about the implications for a boy his age. Billy's best friend Michael (Stuart Wells) is gay, however-a cross-dresser who reaches the high point of his young life by putting on one of the tutus. Soon he is shyly joining her class, the only boy in a crowd of tutus.īilly's father equates male ballet dancers with homosexuality, but Billy doesn't seem to be gay, a fact he discovers to his sudden embarrassment during a pillow fight with his friend Debbie (Nicola Blackwell). One day, at the other end of the village hall, he sees ballet lessons being taught by a chain-smoking disciplinarian ( Julie Walters), and his eyes grow large. Life at home is tense because his father ( Gary Lewis) and brother Tony ( Jamie Draven) are striking miners. The movie takes place in a British coal mining town, where Billy ( Jamie Bell) trudges off to boxing lessons for which he is ill-equipped. ![]()
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