[Anglika]

Billy Elliott is not Scottish. He comes from Co. Durham in England.

Then he starts practising ballet secretly, using the money that his father is collecting for box lessons. has collected to pay for his boxing lessons

His family discovers Billy's passion when his teacher goes to their house and tells them that Billy had missed an audition for the Royal Ballet School in London because his brother has been arrested.

Billy's father and brother at first don't want him to become a professional dancer, but then the two of them change their mind once they see Billy dancing.

So the boy goes to the Royal Ballet School.

The last scene of the film take place years later, Billy (Adam Cooper) is now a famous dancer who is performing the lead in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake.