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Millions
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?
Release : | 2004 |
Rating : | 6.8 |
Studio : | Fox Searchlight Pictures, BBC Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Alex Etel James Nesbitt Daisy Donovan Christopher Fulford Enzo Cilenti |
Genre : | Drama Comedy Crime Family |
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So much average
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
A quirky, fun and ultimately very moving 'family' film (although way more grown up than that tag usually implies). Two young brothers from a working class Irish family find a bag of cash. One wants to spend it, invest it, use it, but the other feels compelled to follow the lead of the saints and give it to the poor. A film with a lovely sense of humor, of family and of the way a kid sees the world. It has a few sticky-sweet moments, but they're much more than made up for by the very real moments of tension, humanity, loss, humor and emotion, Terrific performances all around, and given high energy by the always entertaining, wildly talented Danny Boyle. A film with the true spirit of Christmas, even if it's not a 'Christmas film'.
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.
This is the biggest disappointment I have ever painfully endured. The fact that I'm writing this on Christmas is solely to help others in not making the same mistake I did. Please do not waste money or time on this modern piece of crap. The DVD cover looks enticing; the cute kid and all. The old reviewers who knew good films must all be long gone, and I relied on several positive reviews on IMDb to my family's detriment. The story line was that two young boys find a bag of cash. One boy wants to help people but his brother wants to spend it. Good premise. Who would know that the whole purpose of this film was to reinforce the liberal mantras of modern political correctness. Yes, the end of this story has blacks in Uganda singing, if you can believe it! If you find stolen money, what should you do? Well, of course, send it to your local politician to build water wells in Africa. Was I watching a movie or reading the local fish wrap!? Maybe you will like the long drawn-out morbid music from beginning to end. My kids were scared, one leaving the room. There was a scary bad guy who stalked the brothers, even breaking into their home late at night, and hiding in their attic, to visit one while sleeping. And perhaps you'll enjoy, with your family of course, the little boy, Damian, walking in on his dad and his squeeze. Or the brother, at least 11, checking out boobs, providing info on the value of nipples, on the internet. I guess this is what is required in these times. But the ending, OMG, as they say, is the most ridiculous, by this time, predictable crap ever.
With only days to go until the UK converts to the Euro, two young brothers (Alex Etel and Lewis McGibbon) find an abandoned holdall full of 20 pound and 50 pound notes, and wonder how best to spend it. Christian publications weighed in on the film, many adding stock to its religious message.Millions offers a gorgeous twist on a familiar narrative device: Danny Boyle, one of Britain's most versatile directors, had already employed (for darker purposes) a plot that hinged on a found bag full of money in Shallow Grave (1994). In contrast, this is a terrific family feature that manages to be profoundly moral without ever patronising either its young audience or any grown-ups looking on.