All Is Bright 2013 123movies

Watch: All Is Bright 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Two French Canadian ne’er-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..
Plot: Two ne’er-do-wells from Quebec travel to New York City with a scheme to a get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
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Ratings:

	5.6/10 Votes: 6,517
	49% | RottenTomatoes
	54/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 91 Popularity: 6.895 | TMDB

Reviews:

Surprisingly sad considering it stars Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd!
‘ALL IS BRIGHT’: Three Stars (Out of Five)

Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd star in this comedy-drama film that’s a lot more serious (and less comedic) than I was expecting (with that pair). It’s a Christmas movie about two losers from Canada trying to sell Christmas trees in New York City. It was directed by Phil Morrison (who also directed the 2005 indie critical darling ‘JUNEBUG’) and written by first time film writer Melissa James Gibson. It’s a lot more of a downer than it looks like (in the trailers) and isn’t really that funny but it is a somewhat interesting character study.

Giamatti plays an ex-convict named Dennis, who just got out of prison in Quebec, Canada. His wife, Therese (Amy Landecker) is now sleeping with another man, Rene (Rudd). She also told their daughter, Michi (Tatyana Richaud), that Dennis was dead. In order to make enough money to buy Michi a piano for Christmas Dennis agree to sell Christmas trees with Rene in New York City. Neither is especially good at the job and it’s a big challenge.

For a Christmas movie and a comedy the film is pretty depressing. It’s also surprisingly sad considering it stars Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd. Giamatti does a lot of serious dramas as well as comedies but it’s definitely not Rudd’s usual thing (it does mark his second quirky indie film this year though, after ‘PRINCE AVALANCHE’ from a few moths ago). He is his usual dimwitted and easygoing self in it though and you can’t help but love him (and root for him) despite his flaws. Giamatti is definitely less likable in the movie and is pretty hard to like but both of their characters have their hearts in the right place. If you’re expecting big laughs this isn’t the movie for you but it is a decent emotional buddy film.

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They should’ve stayed in Canada for the winter
Caught this last night on cable, expecting at the very least a decent film, considering the two Pauls. Giamatti is one of my favorite actors, I even created a yahoo group called talkpaul after he was overlooked for an Oscar nod for Sideways a few years back. Paul Rudd ain’t no schlub either; he’s always good no matter what he plays as well. The problem here, as it usually is, begins with the script.

A lot of critics have mentioned how implausible most of the goings-on are in this mess, which they are. I was willing to overlook a lot because I found myself invested in Giamatti’s character. But by the time -=- SPOILER ALERT -=- the money box from the Christmas tree sales gets lifted in the most unbelievably contrived manner and the two Pauls resort to their old thievery habits, stealing, of all things, a grand piano, out of an apartment window, so that Giamatti’s young daughter (who’s been told by her mother who’s now engaged to Rudd’s character that her daddy died of some unnameable cancer) can have a piano for Christmas (he promised one to her in his head, see) I was shaking my head in disappointed disbelief. -=- END OF SPOILER -=-

Something else that bugged me: If you are aware of karma, you will know that what you do to others will be done to you in one form or another eventually. Here we have the two Pauls resorting back to thievery after they’ve just been stolen from, with no awareness whatsoever, of course, of the karma law. This is understandable considering these two ain’t the most enlightened characters on the planet, but it bugged me because they hadn’t learned anything, especially Giamatti’s sad sack, who’d spent four years in the slammer for a theft crime. Just sayin’.

The movie ended up this way -=- SPOILER ALERT -=- (the stealing of the piano, with his daughter running outside her house to play it in the snow, still never knowing about her father, who skulks off into the sad, lonely night) -=-END OF SPOILER -=- to keep the heavy-handed contrivedness going. This is a shame, because with more care given to the details of the story – letting it unfold in a far more organic, believable fashion – this could have been very decent, poignant, even moving. Everything was heavy-handed, including the title: All Is Bright, which of course is supposed to be ironic considering the anything-but-bright situation these guys are in, and the tagline is even more heavy-handed. The original title, Almost Christmas, is almost better, but obviously it doesn’t matter since the film was so disappointing in so many ways.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 10000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Phil Morrison
Writer Melissa James Gibson
Actors Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Harbor Picture Company, New York (NY), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A