He then happens upon a ballet class that is using the gym while their usual basement studio in the Sports Centre is temporarily being used as a soup kitchen for the striking miners.
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Jackie takes Billy to the Sports Centre to learn boxing like his father's dad, but Billy struggles and dislikes the sport. Both Jackie and Tony are coal miners out on strike.
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Billy lives with his widowed father Jackie (Gary Lewis), older brother Tony (Jamie Draven), and his invalid Nan (Jean Heywood), who once aspired to be a professional dancer in Durham.
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Learning how to box is another of the activities passed down along the male lineage of the Elliot family. With the strike foremost on Jackie and Tony's minds, Billy is left largely to his own devices, his father giving him fifty pence for the community boxing class down at the boys' club when Billy is not at home looking after his Grandma (Jean Heywood), who has early stage Alzheimer's.
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However, Jackie, Tony and their fellow miners are currently in a bitter labor dispute, with the mine still operating with scab labor, which is prolonging the strike, since the company has no reason to give in to the wage demands. Current family patriarch, widowed Jackie Elliot (Gary Lewis), and his eldest son Tony Elliot (Jamie Draven) work in the mine, and Jackie's younger son, eleven-year-old Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell), will probably take his place alongside his father and brother when the time comes. The only life the Elliots have known is working in the mine. 1984 in the coal mining village of Evrington, Durham County, Northeast England.