My wife got this movie from Netflix. She said she had seen it long ago and enjoyed it. Certainly on the surface does not appear a movie that would be in my zone as it tells the tale of a boy in a Welsh mining town whose father and brother are on strike from a coal mine, his mother has died and he has a love of ...dance.
As one can imagine any boy loving ballet is a stretch, in a small town certainly.
In the beginning his Dad gives him money for boxing lessons which he ends up spending on ballet lessons. It is easy to imagine his Dads reaction to this when it is discovered by his Dad.
The other story in the movie is the story of the strke and the hatred in the small town between those who stick with the strike and those who do not. Being a union man myself the idea of scabbing is an extreme one.
On a Christmas night after breaking into the the local boxing ring to practice his dance, he had furtively been taking lessons from a teacher who feeling sorry for his situation gave him lessons for free, and is Dad discovers him. Caught he starts dancing and his Dad sees that he does have talent.
How his Dad does find the money to get him to an audition for the Ballet school in London and his audition process make up the rest of the movie.
An unusual subject but a good movie with very good character development
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