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...gift from heaven. Magical realism comes to the English Midlands, where saints speak to little boys and dead mums offer tips on hair conditioners. Kids and adults will enjoy this sweet-but-not-sticky fairy tale from director Danny Boyle. Blessed by the charisma of its young star, Alex Etel, Millions is found gold, and a little bit of heaven...
...their usual precision and fey wit, Park and his Aardman colleagues have created a horror-romance that owes as much to Jane Austen's social comedies as to the Hammer monster movies of yore. In Millions, a sack of stolen money falls on 7-year-old Damian (adorable Alex Etel), and he thinks it?s a gift from heaven. Magical realism comes to the English Midlands, where saints speak to little boys and dead mums offer tips on hair conditioners. Individually, these are films to give meaning and fun to an ailing child?s rainy afternoons. Together, they could brighten...
...story follows seven-year-old Damien (Alexander Nathan Etel) and his nine-year-old brother Anthony (Lewis Owen McGibbon) who, having lost their mother, move with their father to a house in a new development somewhere near Manchester. A few weeks before the shift from the pound to the euro, a bag of cash falls from the sky into Damien’s cardboard fort. The oncoming currency shift poses the problem of how to spend this treasure before it becomes worthless...
Parents are a crucial part of the equation, whether for instruction--Boyle would often tell Etel's mom what he needed the next day, and she would prep him--or for comfort. "I don't go home with them at night if they didn't get a job," says agent Fine. "Parents have to be dedicated to taking their kids through that, or it doesn't work...
...actors from almost any '80s TV show can attest. And even Fernando Ramos da Silva, the illiterate Brazilian boy who starred at 12 in Hector Babenco's Pixote, returned to the streets and, when he was 19, was killed by police. There are milder dangers: Boyle is worried that Etel, having carried his first film, might be disappointed if he doesn't get another big role. "The business can be very loving and also very hurtful, almost simultaneously," Boyle says. "And for a stable upbringing, you don't want exposure to those extremes...