The Perfect Holiday Movie--Millions.
Millions. Go rent it now.
It was an impulse pick-up at Blockbuster as they were all out of the movies we had originally wanted. I looked at the cover, saw that the director Danny Boyle had also directed Trainspotting, and figured it couldn't be all that bad. I believe I have discovered the movie I will be watching for many holiday seasons to come.
1) The movie has the same visual quirks that made Trainspotting so amazing, this isn't a movie-of-the-week with a bigger budget.
2) Set during the holidays, but also a fictional future time period just before Britain converts its currency to the Euro. People have to convert their money or watch it become worthless overnight. A young boy happens upon a huge stash of currency--225,000 of soon to be extinct pounds. The young boy believes the money comes from God ("who else has so much money?") and wants to give it to the poor. His slightly older brother has more materialistic yearnings.
3) The movie has everything you'd want in a thoughtful holiday movie--the allure of the consumer culture, the existence of spiritual and material poverty, the power of familial love--but it's not sappy or preachy.
Wow--even on DVD this is a great movie. I wish I'd seen it on the big screen.
It was an impulse pick-up at Blockbuster as they were all out of the movies we had originally wanted. I looked at the cover, saw that the director Danny Boyle had also directed Trainspotting, and figured it couldn't be all that bad. I believe I have discovered the movie I will be watching for many holiday seasons to come.
1) The movie has the same visual quirks that made Trainspotting so amazing, this isn't a movie-of-the-week with a bigger budget.
2) Set during the holidays, but also a fictional future time period just before Britain converts its currency to the Euro. People have to convert their money or watch it become worthless overnight. A young boy happens upon a huge stash of currency--225,000 of soon to be extinct pounds. The young boy believes the money comes from God ("who else has so much money?") and wants to give it to the poor. His slightly older brother has more materialistic yearnings.
3) The movie has everything you'd want in a thoughtful holiday movie--the allure of the consumer culture, the existence of spiritual and material poverty, the power of familial love--but it's not sappy or preachy.
Wow--even on DVD this is a great movie. I wish I'd seen it on the big screen.
