... of becoming a ballet dancer despite the attitudes and prejudices of family and community is played out against this background. Gaz in The Full Monty, a redundant ex-steelworker, on the other hand, is trying to cope with the effects of a broken marriage and his fractured relationship with his young son with whom he is desperate to keep in contact. His wife is in another relationship and is living an affluent lifestyle. Gaz has the constant worry of not having enough money to pay his wife child support and she threatens that if he doesn't pay she will stop him from seeing his child. In Billy Elliott, Billy's brother and father deal with the catastrophic events in their lives in different ways. Billy's brother Tony's anger, frustration and pain are all externalised. He exhibits this by; openly aggressive behaviour towards police on riot squad duties, challenging his father's authority within the ...

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