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Two French Canadian neer-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees. Easygoing charmer Rene (Paul Rudd) clashes with misanthropic ex-con Dennis (Paul Giamatti), whose wife Rene just stole. Still, this odd couple must make an honest go of it in this buddy comedy.
Its late November, and convicted thief Dennis Girard has just been released from a Québec prison on parole. Despite wanting to go back to Therese, who is technically no longer his wife, and their adolescent daughter Michi, he finds beyond Therese no longer wanting to be with him, it would not be an easy thing to do for Michis sake because of Thereses actions while he was in prison. Wanting in part to prove Therese wrong and in wanting to do something specific for Michi, Dennis is determined to go straight despite the depressed economy making jobs scarce, and his parole officer Tremblay being no help in this regard, thus turning back to a life of crime the path of least resistance. Dennis is able to convince his longtime friend and former partner in crime René, who has indeed gone straight and who Dennis learns is in a relationship with Therese on the cusp of marriage, that is if his current wife Marie will grant him a divorce, to bring him in as a partner in his seasonal business, namely transporting and selling Christmas trees in New York City, despite this work violating Dennis parole in he not allowed to leave the district. Beyond the issue of Therese, René and Dennis friendship and partnership will be tested in their concentrated time together in living and breathing the tree lot for close to a month. That test will also include how tempted either, but most specifically Dennis, will be in returning to a life of crime not if but when things go bad. Through it all, Dennis is befriended by their first customer, Olga, a Russian expat pianist now resorting to working as a live-in domestic for a periodontist, she who provides him with that much needed touchstone to real life.
Paul Giamatti
Dennis
Paul Rudd
Rene
Sally Hawkins
Olga
Amy Landecker
Therese
Tatyana Richaud
Michi
Adam Phillips
Antoine
Michael Drayer
Bobby, who comes to buy a tree
Colman Domingo
Nzomo
Halley Feiffer
Claire, from last year
Nikki M. James
Betsy
Gordon Joseph Weiss
Blind Guy
Curtiss Cook
Kevin
Darren Goldstein
Border Guard
Rob Munk
Friendly Vermonteer
Peter Hermann
Monsieur Tremblay
Morgan Spector
Vladimir
Marcia Haufrecht
Bartender #1
Janet Sarno
Bartender #2
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