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5. Outstanding movie
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:18 PM
Jan 2018

There is a heartwarming story about how it inspired a young man on IMDB

In 2012, an article in London's Evening Standard covered a 19-year-old dancer, Liam Mower, who had come full-circle as a result of this movie. When Mower saw the film as a small child, it inspired him to become a dancer - specifically to aspire to a role in the New Adventures Dance Company's all-male production of Swan Lake, which is the ballet that the adult Billy performs in at the end of the movie Billy Elliot. While still a child, Mower then played the role of Billy Elliot in the London production of the stage musical adaptation of Billy Elliot. And then, at 19, Mower joined the New Adventures company, where (as of 2015) he has danced in ballets including Nutcracker!, Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, and Swan Lake. Mower also went back to the London stage musical to play the dream ballet's "Adult Billy" in Billy Elliot the Musical Live (2014).

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