Billy Elliot (2000)

The story takes place in the mining town of County Durham during the violent 1984 miner strikes.  Billy lives with his widowed dad, older brother, and grandma.  As an eleven year old boy, he is expected to pick up the masculine traditions on the town and box as a youth and mine as an adult.  During the days his dad and brother are in the protest mobs, while Billy is supposed to be learning boxing.  He is not good at boxing and has a fancy to try ballet.  Secretly he begins to take the ballet classes, and he find that it helps him release anger and frustrations.  His teacher thinks that he is good enough to try out for the famous London Ballet school.  When Billy's dad and brother find out, they are beside themselves and will not stand for it.  They are afraid he is gay, when in fact another boy in town is gay, but that boy is hiding it.  That storyline really goes nowhere.  In fact most of the story goes nowhere.  Billy's family finally relents, raises the money for the tryouts...the heartwarming moments literally take place in the final three minutes of the movie, but the journey to them was not worth the wait.  If you have not seen this movie already, do not fall victim to it, let it pass you by.