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Millions is a 2004 film and book written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was originally written solely as a screenplay, but Cottrell Boyce then decided to adapt it into a novel while the film was in the process of being made. The book was awarded the Carnegie Medal, and formed an integral part of the annual Liverpool Reads campaign in Cottrell Boyce's home city. The film version was directed by Danny Boyle, and stars Alexander Etel, Lewis McGibbon, and James Nesbitt. Image File history File links Millions_DVD_cover. ...
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is a film director and film producer born in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England to Irish Catholic immigrant parents. ...
Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, best known for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. ...
Etel in Millions, 2005 Alexander Nathan Etel (born 19 September 1994 in Manchester) is an English child actor. ...
Lewis Owen McGibbon (born in Warrington, Cheshire, 14 July 1991) is a British child actor, whose first movie performance was the critically praised role of Anthony, the slightly more worldly-wise older brother of the star Damien in Danny Boyles 2004 family comedy, Millions. ...
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// Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2004; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2004. ...
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Frank Cottrell Boyce is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, best known for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. ...
The Carnegie Medal in Literature was established in the UK in 1936 in honour of Andrew Carnegie. ...
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is a film director and film producer born in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England to Irish Catholic immigrant parents. ...
Etel in Millions, 2005 Alexander Nathan Etel (born 19 September 1994 in Manchester) is an English child actor. ...
Lewis Owen McGibbon (born in Warrington, Cheshire, 14 July 1991) is a British child actor, whose first movie performance was the critically praised role of Anthony, the slightly more worldly-wise older brother of the star Damien in Danny Boyles 2004 family comedy, Millions. ...
James Nesbitt (born January 15, 1965) is a Northern Ireland-born British actor who is best known for his roles in ITVs Cold Feet and the BBCs Murphys Law as well as a series of television advertisements for the UK Yellow Pages. ...
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Millions tells the story of 7-year-old Damian whose family moves to the suburbs of Manchester after the death of his mother. Soon after the move, Damian's playhouse is obliterated by a bag of money flung from a passing train. Damian immediately shows the money to his brother, Anthony, and the two begin thinking of what to do with it. This article is becoming very long. ...
Damian, the kind-hearted and religious of the two, had recently overheard three Latter Day Saint missionaries lecture other members of the community on building foundations of rock rather than foundations of sand, an old Christian principle which dictates that self-worth should be based on spirituality rather than worldly things like money and wealth. The lecture inspires Damian, who is particularly enamored with the missionaries because of the name of their church (Damian is obsessed with Saints, studying about them all the time and even seeing them in his day-to-day activities as hallucinations), and he immediately begins looking for ways to give his share of the money to the poor. At one point, he even gives a bundle of cash to the missionaries themselves, hearing about their modest lifestyle (the result of religious dedication) and deciding that they too must be poor. The term Latter Day Saint most commonly refers to (but is not limited to) members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which, its members believe, was founded under the direction of Jesus Christ by the prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. ...
A missionary is traditionally defined as a propagator of religion who works to convert those outside that community; someone who proselytizes. ...
Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6). ...
Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ...
General definition of saint In general, the term Saint refers to someone who is exceptionally virtuous and holy. ...
A hallucination is a sensory perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, as distinct from an illusion, which is a misperception of an external stimulus. ...
Throughout the course of the story, Damian does little acts of kindness like buying birds from pet stores and setting them free and taking beggars to Pizza Hut, while Anthony bribes other kids at school into being his transportation and bodyguards, and looks into investing the money in real estate. Pizza Hut is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Addison, Texas USA (a northern suburb of Dallas) specializing in American-style pizza along with side dishes including (depending on location) buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread. ...
Bribery is a crime implying a sum or gift given alters the behaviour of the person in ways not consistent with the duties of that person. ...
A bodyguard is a person or group of people who professionally protect someone (known as their principal) from personal assault, kidnapping, assassination, loss of confidential information, or other threats. ...
Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ...
The story takes place within a week of the change from the pound to the Euro, and an assembly is held at Damian's school to inform the children about the change, as well as to educate the children about helping the poor. Damian learns that the money, which is in pounds, will not be any good after the "E-Day" (the day that the EU Euro would take over as the official legal tender), and he and his brother cannot open a bank account (which would change the money for them upon its deposit) without their parents' signature, and their father does not know about the money. Damian, realising that the money will be no good after a few days, decides that the best thing to do would be to give it all to the poor before the conversion. Upon deciding this, he drops 1000 pounds into the donation can at the assembly, for which he and Anthony get in trouble. ISO 4217 Code GBP User(s) United Kingdom, the British Indian Ocean Territory[1] Inflation 2. ...
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A deliberative assembly is an organization, comprised of members, that uses a parliamentary procedure for making decisions. ...
Legal tender or forced tender is payment that cannot be refused in settlement of a debt denominated in the same currency by virtue of law. ...
After the donation, Anthony's friend informs them that a train carrying bills which were to be destroyed after the conversion had been robbed and that the money had been dispersed by throwing it off of the train at various locations to be collected by the robbers, who were positioned throughout the country. The boys logically conclude that their money was stolen, and Damian, who thought the money was from God, feels terrible. This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...
Around this time, a mysterious man comes snooping around the train tracks and asks Damian if he has any money. Damian thinks that the man is a beggar and tells him he has 'loads of money'. However, Anthony finds out and comes back to give the man a jar full of coins to cover Damian's tracks. Beggars in Samarkand, 1905 Begging includes the various methods used by persons to obtain money, food, shelter, drugs, alcohol, or other things from people they encounter during the course of their travels. ...
The robber eventually finds out where Damian lives and ransacks his house to find the money. Damian had informed his father about the money just before they came home to their destroyed house. Damian's father, who had resolved to give the money back, decided that if the robbers were going to steal his family's Christmas, then he would steal the robbers' money. The family, as well as the father's new girlfriend, go on a massive shopping spree on Christmas Eve. Holdup redirects here. ...
Christmas is an annual holiday that marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. ...
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That night, after they are asleep, their house is bombarded by beggars and charities begging for contributions, and seeing the confusion that results, Damian runs off to the train tracks to burn the money, deciding that it was doing more harm than good. While he is burning the money, he is visited by his dead mother (which is not out of the ordinary in the scope of the story; Damian is visited by numerous dead saints throughout the story, a phenomenon which is never explained as either hallucinatory or genuine, rather is a light-hearted device used to show Damian's purity) who tells him not to worry about her. She also tells him that he was her miracle, which is significant because in Catholicism, performing a miracle is a requirement for becoming a saint. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
A miracle, derived from the old Latin word miraculum meaning something wonderful, is a striking interposition of divine intervention by a god in the universe by which the ordinary course and operation of Nature is overruled, suspended, or modified. ...
As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective , meaning general or universal[1] - is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as follows: ~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or...
The movie is a commentary on the issue of world poverty; particularly in Africa; as well as the spiritual poverty of affluence. In the final scene we see Damian's dream of the family flying a rocket ship to Africa and helping develop water wells, which earlier in the movie is shown to be the most crucial and cheapest way to drastically improve the quality of life for many African communities. A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ...
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A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...
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As the tagline asks, 'Is anyone good?', this film poses the age old question of what one would do if they suddenly received a large windfall. Damian, after trying to help people with it, chooses to burn it because he realises that the money has caused all sorts of problems, and most importantly that it was stolen in the first place and that it would be wrong to keep it for personal gain. A tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. ...
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