Millions

What would you do with a million dollars?! It’s a fun question to play with. I can come up with a dozen ways to spend it without any trouble at all. Travel, cars, clothes, houses . . . and imagine how many CDs, video games or movies you could take in with that kind of dosh! And how many pizzas to go with it! Welcome to your own fantasy world . . .
At seven years old, Damien is busy creating his own fantasy world after his mother’s death. His world revolves around his cubbyhouse and a fascination with saints—they’re not your usual imaginary friends! When a large bag of money crashes through the cubbyhouse roof, he’s convinced it’s come directly from God. But what to do with it?
Damien’s older brother, Anthony, has big ideas about the money and makes sure they don’t tell their dad “for tax reasons.”
Anthony is business savvy, as well as seeing the opportunity to make friends at their new school.
Damien has different ideas. Inspired by the saints he spends his time reading about (and talking with!), he just wants to give the money to poor people. The only problem is he’s having a lot of difficulty finding poor people in his local neighbourhood to give any of the money to.
It’s a lot harder than you think!
Millions is a light-hearted story about figuring out the right thing to do in complicated circumstances. The film also gently uncovers our preoccupation with money while suggesting a better way.
Some may find the “non-Adventist” theology of a few parts of this film a little challenging. However, there’s plenty to encourage thought and discussion about how we should live as Christians.
Damien’s imaginary-friend saints remind us that Christians over the past 2000 years have had to deal with all kinds of hardship, persecution and even martyrdom.
Many have also chosen to live simply and selflessly for others’ benefit.
Millions shows that all of this is a long way from the comfortable, self-serving way we live at the start of the 21st century and that there’s probably something to be learned from the saints’ examples. The movie also helps us remember that there are still ways we can make the world a better place if we choose to be a little less self-centred. It can be easy to forget that we are pretty well off compared to the majority of people on the planet.
Saint James doesn’t make an appearance in Millions, but he easily could have.
He said that religion that’s of any value at all, and the kind that God wants, includes a large part of looking after those who can’t look after themselves. The people James draws our attention to are widows and orphans—those who are most vulnerable and needy.
Sometimes it takes a seven-year-old boy to remind us of our responsibility and rekindle our passion. And if the passion is there, millions will follow.

Text- James 1 and 2