This bleakly hilarious film from director Phil
Morrison (Junebug) stars Paul Giamatti as Dennis, an ex-con trying to find his
way back in a society that has moved on since he went away, Not only is his
wife now sleeping with his best friend/partner in crime, Rene (Paul Rudd) but
she actually told their daughter he was dead rather than admit he’d gone to
prison. To make some money, money he plans to use to buy his daughter the piano
of her dreams, Dennis takes a job with Rene selling Christmas trees in NYC.
What follows is a series of increasingly outrageous scenes where Rene and
Dennis learn everything but the meaning of Christmas. The story gets a bit too
outlandish at times, but Giamatti and Rudd are always interesting to watch.
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