Billy Elliot the performances of Julie Walters, Gary Lewis and Jamie Bell in particular. In 2004, the magazine "Total Film" named "Billy Elliot" the 39th greatest British film of all time. Stephen Warbeck scored the music for the film. The soundtrack was released on 11 March 2002, and includes several well-known glam rock and punk songs from the likes of T. Rex and the Clash. The soundtrack also contains pieces of dialogue from the film. In 2004, English singer/songwriter Elton John joined forces with the film's screenwriter Lee Hall to produce a musical adaptation of the film, which premiered 31 March 2005
Billy Elliot father, Jamie Draven as Billy's bullying older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher. The film was theatrically released on 29 September 2000 by Universal Pictures and Focus Features. It received positive reviews from critics and it earned £72,853,509 on a £3 million budget. In 2001, author Melvin Burgess was commissioned to write the novelisation of the film based on Lee Hall's screenplay. The story was adapted for the West End stage as "Billy Elliot the Musical" in 2005; it opened in Australia in 2007 and on Broadway in 2008. In 1984, Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old from the fictional