Billy Elliot vs The Commitments
Billy Elliot has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 7.3/10 for The Commitments). Billy Elliot is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 1h 58m. The Commitments is the older of the two (1991 against 2000). Both are comedy, drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Billy Elliot
The Commitments| Billy Elliot | The Commitments | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 1991 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 1h 58m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Music | Comedy, Drama, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Stephen Daldry | Alan Parker |
| Main cast | Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven | Colm Meaney, Bronagh Gallagher, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Angeline Ball, Andrea Corr |
Synopsis
Billy Elliot
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon…
The Commitments
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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