

However, Jackie, Tony and their fellow miners are currently in a bitter labor dispute, with the mine still operating with scab labor, which is prolonging the strike, since the company has no reason to give in to the wage demands.

Current family patriarch, widowed Jackie Elliot (Gary Lewis), and his eldest son Tony Elliot (Jamie Draven) work in the mine, and Jackie's younger son, eleven-year-old Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell), will probably take his place alongside his father and brother when the time comes.

The only life the Elliots have known is working in the mine. 1984 in the coal mining village of Evrington, Durham County, Northeast England.
