Tis the season to… sit in a movie theatre together and cheer on our favourite 11 year old ballet dancer. Because on December 10th at the Paradise, we are closing our ‘25 program by celebrating the 25th anniversary of Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot!

Starring Jamie Bell in maybe the greatest performance an adolescent has ever given on screen (he should have won an Oscar for it, and thankfully did win a BAFTA!), Billy Elliot follows a working class boy fighting gender norms in 1980s England. Thankfully he has a little help from his dance teacher Sandra (Julie Walters, also that year’s rightful Oscar winner we are sorry to Marcia Gay Harden), who helps Billy find a way to be brave enough to be himself.

Warm and sweet and funny and heartbreaking, we’ve decided Billy Elliot is also a Christmas movie (there is in fact Christmas in it!) and we know you will too after you join us next month. We will also be having a special Billy Elliotinspired performance from Clarke Kuntt before the show, and you can pick up a physical poster of this perfect original poster made by our friend Paul Dotey! Get your tickets here.