A product of a working-class background in Manchester, England, Danny Boyle came out of both politically-charged and mainstream theater to make his feature directing debut with "Shallow Grave" (1994), an intense study of how greed can affect people who are otherwise chums. Boyle claims not to have been in a theater until he was 18, yet by the time he was in his 20s he was already directing at the Joint Stock Theatre Company, known in Britain for being both controversial and for producing new and cutting edge plays. In 1982, he moved to London's Royal Court Theatre Upstairs as artistic