Millions Movie Review 2005

Boyle shows he can do sweet family entertainment with the same ease he does violent and creepy (a la "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later"). Set just before Christmas, practical 9-year-old Anthony (McGibbon) and his dreamer 7-year-old brother Damian (Etel) have just moved with their recently widowed father Ronnie (Nesbitt) into a new neighborhood outside Liverpool. Damian is hanging out near the rail line when a bag filled with (stolen) English pound notes literally comes flying through the air. Damian, who sees and talks to a variety of saints, wants to use the money to help the poor while Anthony would prefer to keep it for themselves. In any case, the boys have only a few days to use the loot since the currency will become scrap paper as Britain makes an (imagined) switch to the euro. Child-centered story may be whimsical but stays firmly away from the sappy.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 97 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comedy Drama, Crime Drama, Brothers & Sisters, Great Britain, Burglars, Single Parents, Saints

Screenplay

Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Cast

James Nesbitt, Christopher Fulford, Alun Armstrong, Kathryn Pogson, Alex(ander Nathan) Etel, Lewis Owen McGibbon, Daisy Donovan, Pearce Quigley, Jane Hogarth, Enzo Cilenti, Nasser Memarzia, Harry Kirkham, Cornelius Macarthy, Kolade Agboke

Cinematography

Anthony Dod Mantle

Director

Danny Boyle

Music

John Murphy

Other

Leslie Phillips, Dennis Cartwright, Chris Gill, Susannah Buxton, Mark Tidesley

Producer

Graham Broadbent, Damian Jones, Andrew Hauptman, Mission Pictures, Pathe, Fox Searchlight