Millions

2004 "Can anyone be truly good?"
6.8| 1h38m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 29 April 2004 Released
Producted By: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://www.searchlightpictures.com/millions
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Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the United Kingdom switches its official currency to the Euro. What's a kid to do?

Genre

Drama, Comedy, Crime

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Director

Danny Boyle

Production Companies

Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Listonixio Fresh and Exciting
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
SnoopyStyle Britain is switching from Pounds to Euros. A gang of thieves rob a train loaded with the old money to be incinerated. One of the bags of money falls into Damian (Alex Etel)'s playhouse. He's obsessed with religious saints and has fantasies. He's moved into a new house with his older brother Anthony and father after the death of his mother. Then a creepy man (Christopher Fulford) comes looking for the money.I love the fantastical style that Danny Boyle puts into this. It's backed up by a heart warming story and a very cute Alex Etel. The boy's innocence is adorable and heartbreaking. The saints are such a wonderful and unusual touch. It's a family movie that doesn't play down to the kids. It is funny and packed with interesting ideas.
Syl Damien is a strange seven year old boy. First, his mother has died. He has an older brother, Anthony, and lives with their father. They move to a new home and go to a new school. Damien sees saints and talks to them. He knows the years of their birth and death and why they died. Damien seems Christlike in some ways. When he finds a bag of British pounds before the Euro change (which never happened), he tells his brother who has other ideas on how to spend the money. For Damien, he prefer it all goes to the poor and less fortunate. When the boys learn that the money is stolen, things can get worse. In the end, the money didn't buy the happiness that we always associate it too. In fact, it caused more trouble and spent unwisely. The cast is great especially Damien and Anthony's portrayers. Damien comes across as saintly but flawed in his performance.
kai ringler thought that this was a great human feel good story. those two little boys did a remarkable job with it, the story goes like this,, a boy playing outside his house happens to get lucky when a bag is tossed out of a train,, unbeknownst to him at first it has over a quarter million pounds in it, well at first he doesn't know what to do with it, so he shows it to his older brother, then they come up with a few ideas for the money, one being to give away some of the money to the poor.. along the way the meet several characters,, "saints" , like Francis of Assisi, and so on and so forth, you see their mother is dead so they are really trying to find their mother, but as the movie goes on having all of this money leads to chaos and more problems for the boys, as they start getting people following them and pretending to be their friends,, soon they realize that having all of this money does more harm than good,, all in all i liked this movie very much,, i was surprised to find out that Danny Boyle from 28 days later had directed this one,, congratulations Danny on a job well done.
Martin Bradley This magical, phantasmagorial feel-good movie really ought not to work but it does, and beautifully. It's certainly Danny Boyle's best film since "Trainspotting". Alex Etel and Lewis McGibbon are the children whose discovery of a bag of money from a, not the, great train robbery has a somewhat traumatic effect on their somewhat humdrum lives. At first it's a case of spend, spend, spend, certainly by the older boy, Anthony, or give, give, give in the case of Damian, the younger one whose sleeping and waking moments are filled with visions of the saints. Their foolhardy behaviour soon draws the attention of both the authorities and one of the villains and their problems are further exacerbated by the fact that they only have a few days to get rid of the lolly before Britain converts to the Euro.This is a sweet movie but it isn't a cloying one. At its centre is a truly wonderful performance from Alex Etel as Damian, acting as if he believed every minute of it, (and banishing our doubts in the process). It helps, too, that the film has a very solid script by Frank Cottrell Boyce that blends fantasy and realism so seamlessly. It's funny and it's moving and the old chestnut of the dead mother paying one last visit to her children is handled without sentimentality. A credit to all concerned.