Millions [HD]

Shows the constructive and destructive power of money
This was a great film that really shows what money can do to people. It is also fascinating that it is the youngest person who actually has philanthropic ideas on how to spend it.

Spurred on by the urgency that England is switching over to the Euro in a few days (not gonna happen,) freckle-faced Damien and his brother, Anthony, have to think fast. Damien feels the money came from God and therefore should be used to help the less fortunate. Anthony feels like they *are* the less fortunate and should use it to help themselves. Damien is also helped by odd visions of saints who counsel him. Meanwhile, Anthony is out pricing real estate.

Of course, tossing money on unsuspecting children is not really God's style, as the boys' father states. The money was actually tossed by a bank robber who wants it back at any cost.

This is a fun yet profound film that accurately shows greed, kindness, faith, and selfishness all resulting from the same event. The...

Faith, Hope, and Charity - with a little help from the Saints
Danny Boyle ('28 Days Later', 'Trainspotting', 'A Life Less Ordinary') has a way with stories that transports a good script (in this case one by Frank Cottrell Boyce) into a cinematic range that creates magic. MILLIONS may seem like a little family tale on the surface, but in Boyle's hands this story about the struggle between Janus ethics vaults off into magical realism, happily taking the audience along for a journey of wonder and joy and the importance of charity.

Damian (Alexander Nathan Etel) and his older brother Anthony (Lewis Owen McGibbon) are moved by their father Ronnie (James Nesbitt) to a new housing project after the untimely death of the boys' mother. The brothers are devoted to each other yet Anthony is the pragmatist while Damian is the dreamer, a lad who regularly has visions and poignant converations with dead saints, always asking if they know anything about St. Maureen (his recently deceased mother). Damian believes in miracles and when suddenly a...

What a Charmer!
Well worth the ticket price of movies these days! This lovely film focuses on the story of two little boys who have a bag of money literally descend on them, and of course, the older brother is a financially savvy entrepreneur and the younger one a visionary with a heart of gold. It is a great story for every reason imaginable. While the younger lad sees Saintis who may or may not actually be there and is concerned rpimarily for the welfare of his Mom in the afterlife, the boy sees also the importance of sharing wealth that really isn't yours to begin with. The father, his new girlfriend and the older brother are all ultimately enraptured by the young fella's heart, and along the way there are hilarious episodes, bad guys, silly pranks.

Danny Boyle has got it absolutely right what it means to be a kid. This film is perfect. And as an extraspecial gift, he has used a Clash tune more creatively than anyone could ever have imagined!

Go see this, you'll be enchanted.

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