U.K. director Danny Boyle turns his talents to an unabashed family film, though fans will detect an echo of his ferocious SHALLOW GRAVE (1994), in which the naked avarice revealed by an illicit windfall consumes three roommates. Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce's altogether gentler story, however, allows goodness to trump greed when unexpected riches drop into the lap of motherless 7-year-old Damian Cunningham (Alex Etel). Damian's grieving father (James Nesbitt) has just moved Damian and his brother, 9-year-old Anthony (Lewis McGibbon), to a brand-new home in suburban Manchester in hopes of making a fresh start. Each sibling is coping with loss in his own way: Prag...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
97 mins