'Millions' director says film shows victory for 'good and generosity'

Published: 2005-03-09

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Danny Boyle, the director of the new film "Millions," says the movie demonstrates "a small, significant victory for good and generosity" despite the intrusions of money and adulthood and their attendant pressures. Throughout the filming of the movie, Boyle said, a quote from English writer Graham Greene stayed with him: "There's a moment in childhood where the door opens onto adult life, and it never closes again." Boyle added, "I wanted to be able to look back through that door on Damian (the film's 8-year-old central character) and that moment." In "Millions," motherless 8-year-old Damian (Alex Etel) finds a suitcase filled with money and confides only in his 10-year-old brother, Anthony (Lewis McGibbon), about its existence, unaware it is stolen money. While Anthony would prefer some prudent investments along with the occasional splurge, Damian, a precocious expert on the lives of the saints, wants to give it to poor people since he believes the cash was a gift from God.

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