Millions

Director Danny Boyle revisits a theme from his Shallow Grave and Trainspotting days -- greed -- but focuses on a much younger protagonist with this comedy drama. Millions opens with recent widower Ronnie (James Nesbitt) moving his two precocious pre-pubescent sons to the suburbs. Missing his mother ...more

Much as David Lynch did with The Straight Story, Millions finds Danny Boyle abandoning his fondness for violence, instead directing a family film that delves into magical realism. Boyle takes the striking visual techniques from Trainspotting and 28 Days Later and applies them to a children's fantasy populated by haloed saints. It's busy, colorful, cheery -- and ultimately scattershot. With swarming images and a relentless music-box soundtrack (by John Murphy), Boyle tends to overwhelm what ...more