Millions

Millions (2005) is a British comedy-drama directed by Danny Boyle — watch it online on iFILM. Seven-year-old Damian talks to saints. Not metaphorically: they show up, sit down, and tell him about their lives. Then a bag falls out of the sky and lands on his cardboard fort. Inside: £229,000 in cash.

His nine-year-old brother Anthony immediately thinks about property investment. Damian wants to give it all away. The problem is timing — in seven days, the UK switches to euros, and the pounds become worthless paper. James Nesbitt plays their recently widowed father, oblivious to the fortune two doors down. The money brings trouble neither boy is equipped to handle.

Boyle made something here that sits apart from everything else in his filmography — gentle, funny, and quietly heartbroken, told entirely from a child's point of view on money and grief. Stream Millions (2005) online on iFILM.