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The Story: Director Danny Boyle and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce team up for this offbeat family film, about two young boys who get presented with a unique problem: how to spend millions of pounds before the Euro is introduced into the UK. With appearances by numerous patron saints and a Dickensian villain, this is every bit as much a Danny Boyle movie as 28 Days Later and Trainspotting.
UK Box Office: Β£1.455 million (as at 2nd August 2005)
Useless Fact: Frank Cottrell Boyce's script was originally set during the 60s against the backdrop of the Great Train Robbery.

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THE REVIEWS...

"It's Shallow Grave retold as a fairy tale for big kids everywhere" (4/5)

"Millions is a feelgood film, but one that generates its delight without resorting to clichΓ©s or manipulation" (8/10)

"A proper all-ages crowd-pleaser which will no doubt become a TV Christmas fixture for many years to come" (6/10)

"Unafraid to get fairly creepy and unsettling at times without ever losing view of the story's themes" (3.5/5)

"If the Children's Film Foundation put together a version of Shallow Grave, it might look weirdly like this" (3/5)

"The real thieves are Alex Etel and Lewis McGibbon, the fantastic young actors who run off with this engaging urban fairytale" (3/5)

"Likely to amuse and divert both children and adults. And, best of all, to enchant them" (registration required)

"A charming and engaging little movie, with a heart of gold and a refreshingly innocent nature"

"Soak up the brilliance of a film that succeeds in being both funny and touching without sacrificing what's important" (86%)

"Millions has the germ of a good idea... most of it, however, is terribly ingratiating" (2/5)

"Neither charming nor funny, it is full of sub-standard performances that only irritate"

WEB WATCH...

Millions
Official site

"Do you make genuine friends in the film industry?"
Danny Boyle's director's diary

"You try and make films as interesting as possible"
Danny Boyle interview

"It's a Mr Men model, basically"
Frank Cottrell Boyce interview (registration required)

"A classic kids' story has to have the woods with the wolf"
Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell Boyce interview

"I'm dead proud of them"
Danny Boyle interview (registration required)

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