Billy Elliot Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 British dance drama film about a boy becoming a professional ballet dancer. It is set in North East England during the 1984–85 coal miners' strike. It was produced by Greg Brenman and Jon Finn, music composed by Stephen Warbeck, co-produced by BBC Films, Tiger Aspect Pictures and Working Title Films, distributed by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. The film stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer dealing with the negative stereotype of the male ballet dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner
Take Me to the River "Take Me to the River" for his autobiography, published in 2000. In 2004, Green's original recording was ranked number 117 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song was used as the title track of the award-winning 2008 compilation album "Take Me to the River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977". The song played prominent role in an episode of the HBO series "The Sopranos" in which a Big Mouth Billy Bass played a major role. It was also used in the 1993 movie "Blood In Blood Out" and also featured in the 1991