Or not, if you think about it. Paul Giamatti is terrific in his role here and Sally Hawkins does convince in her role too (especially because she's doing an accent, which may sound weird first time you hear it). Those two alone make this movie worth while. It's also nice to see Paul Rudd in a different role (he could be related to his other character in Prince Avalanche.It did make me look different on this particular brand of business those two are taking part of. And while it seems to get cliché towards the end, it does get to a point that is really good. I would love to like the movie even more (especially because of the actors involved), but there is a bit too little there to really get to that point

Paul Giamatti plays the lead role in this dark comedy as Dennis, a small time crook which comes out of Canadian prison after four years, just to find his best friend having moved in with his woman and daughter, and above that; they've told the daughter that he has died of some horrible kind if cancer. With no home and no family he is to survive Christmas. To finance he goes together with his best friend go to New York to sell, Christmas trees.Giamatti is great as a criminal. He looks like he is gonna snap every second, and is not very far from doing some criminal stunt. He's one the verge, you could say. Every time his friend gets a phone call...But there's obvious problems too. The music score is awful! Played in live somewhere, and should be acting as a good back ground, but it's annoyingly bad, and tedious, as well as misfired. Sad and tragic, and adds to the despair.It's a good plot, but the film is quite too slow for it's own good. This kind of comedies I've seen so much better from the Coen-brothers, or by Norwegian directors like Hans Petter Moland, Pål Sletaune, Rune Denstad Langlo or Jens Lien. The timing in this is not the same, but still there's some entertainment to find here.It's a rather pitiful Christmas story, and I had to stop watching three times because it was so boring, and annoyingly unhappy. I wouldn't recommend this, if your not a fan of Giamatti.Don't watch this if you're out for a Happy Christmas story, because it's a bleak one, both film and Christmas that is.

I normally love the two male leads...but this film seemed a labor of pain and suspending disbelief.Here we have two former partners in crime, one who steals the other's wife while he's in prison, yet they're still pals and team up for a truck trip from Canada to sell Christmas trees in New York. Paul Giamatti is the cuckolded pal who never lets Paul Rudd forget what he did during fits of overacting.On top of this, these two petty criminals haven't the sense to bank their sales each day until the obvious happens and to get something to show for their work they wind up pulling a Laurel and Hardy style burglary in New York without getting caught. And they do this with the assistance of a wealthy and cultured Russian woman who takes a liking to the crude and filthy Giamatti character.In the end, Rudd ends up with Giamattis wife and child, while Giamatti gets nothing...and that's the way you feel at the end of All is Bright. Have a nice day, hopefully brighter and more intelligent than this film.

watched ALL IS BRIGHT ...a light but touching Drama with occasional ting of digestible Comedy...thanks to its clear plot the film doesn't get tangled within...also its talented cast executed their job perfectly...the story is a little slow in the start but it gets its pace after 20mins(it didn't suck though) its a good film it entertains you but nothing more...I guess its one of the best Christmas themed movie(although that wasn't the intent of the makers_ I guess)....as a Family Film its a MUST WATCH ....if you are forever alone(/watcher)its still WORTH A WATCH ....but again All IS BRIGHT for the family cause this kind of films come occasionally(or rarely nowadays)