Mark movie-going
Jun. 13th, 2005 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeI'm savoring each of my visits with my pal Mark, since he'll be leaving for college in Ohio come August... This afternoon, as a birthday present, he took me to see "Millions", this sweet little independant flick that 20th Century Fox picked up:
***** out of *****
It's got the kind of attention to detail and artistry that you find in indie flicks, but it's got a better budget than most, though it bypasses the big-budget look, putting an emphasis on telling the story. And that story is of a ten-year old English lad with a fondness for the legends of the lives of the Catholic saints (A sweetly smart-talking, cigarette-smoking Saint Clare of Assisi, a jovial, Latin-speaking St. Nicholas, and the Uganda Martyrs make cameo appearances), who finds 200,000 English Pounds in a bag that practically falls out of the sky onto his cardboard box-fort, when his widowed father and brother move to a new home after his mother's death. With England about to make the switch from sterling to Euros, he has to find a way to dispose of the money quickly, and without bothering his conscience too badly. It's a sweet, feel-good flick, but it manages to dodge being sacchrine. ::Can't wait for it to come out on DVD, so she can share it with her mom::
***** out of *****
It's got the kind of attention to detail and artistry that you find in indie flicks, but it's got a better budget than most, though it bypasses the big-budget look, putting an emphasis on telling the story. And that story is of a ten-year old English lad with a fondness for the legends of the lives of the Catholic saints (A sweetly smart-talking, cigarette-smoking Saint Clare of Assisi, a jovial, Latin-speaking St. Nicholas, and the Uganda Martyrs make cameo appearances), who finds 200,000 English Pounds in a bag that practically falls out of the sky onto his cardboard box-fort, when his widowed father and brother move to a new home after his mother's death. With England about to make the switch from sterling to Euros, he has to find a way to dispose of the money quickly, and without bothering his conscience too badly. It's a sweet, feel-good flick, but it manages to dodge being sacchrine. ::Can't wait for it to come out on DVD, so she can share it with her mom::
