Reply #3: He's not gay...

[tjdee]

He's the son of a coal miner, who's on strike. His dad sends him to boxing, but he's not very good at it...in the same gym there's also a ballet class, which he becomes interested in. People figure that because he wants to do ballet he's a "puff"....but he's not and there's also a touching scene with a girl, actually one of the nicest scenes.

It's quite well done.
There's a good subplot about his father and brother on strike. There are some scenes that are just...everything that a movie should be.

It was on a few best of the year lists I think, in 2000.