Almost a year after losing the love of his life, retired mechanic Walter Meyer (Danny Glover) he invites his dysfunctional family for the holidays.
Hosting
his grown children and their families in the family home where they all grew up
for a traditional celebration for their first Christmas since their mom died.
However
Walter soon realizes it will take a major Christmas miracle to get through five
days together under the same roof with his bickering children and the rest of
the family.
French Canadian Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is out on parole and is unable to find work because of his criminal history.
To
add insult onto injury he finds out that his long-time partner in crime,
easy-going charmer Rene (Paul Rudd), has begun a relationship with his ex-wife.
Despite
a growing animosity between them, they reluctantly agree to work together one
last time as Dennis wants to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter
the piano, she’s always wanted.
So
the odd couple travel to New York City with a get rich quick scheme selling
Christmas trees.
French Canadian Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is out on parole and is unable to find work because of his criminal history.
To
add insult onto injury he finds out that his long-time partner in crime,
easy-going charmer Rene (Paul Rudd), has begun a relationship with his ex-wife.
Despite
a growing animosity between them, they reluctantly agree to work together one
last time as Dennis wants to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter
the piano, she’s always wanted.
So
the odd couple travel to New York City with a get rich quick scheme selling
Christmas trees.
French Canadian Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is out on parole and is unable to find work because of his criminal history.
To
add insult onto injury he finds out that his long-time partner in crime, easy-going
charmer Rene (Paul Rudd), has begun a relationship with his ex-wife.
Despite
a growing animosity between them, they reluctantly agree to work together one
last time as Dennis wants to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter
the piano, she’s always wanted.
So the odd couple travel to New York City with a get rich quick scheme selling Christmas trees.
French Canadian Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is out on parole and is unable to find work because of his criminal history.
To
add insult onto injury he finds out that his long-time partner in crime,
easy-going charmer Rene (Paul Rudd), has begun a relationship with his ex-wife.
Despite
a growing animosity between them, they reluctantly agree to work together one
last time as Dennis wants to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter
the piano, she’s always wanted.
So
the odd couple travel to New York City with a get rich quick scheme selling
Christmas trees.
John Dale (Jeff Rose) seems to have everything, money, possessions, and a lavish home, but he doesn’t really have everything, because what he really wants is a good old-fashioned Christmas, which is problematic as he has no family in town.
Then
he thinks he has found a solution when he enters the Rent-All store, emblazoned
with a sign stating a “We rent anything.”
So
he asks the owner Anne Weston (Sherry Morris) if he can “rent or borrow”
Christmas.
She
asks for clarification, and he specifies that he wants five children, a wife, decorations,
a tree, a Christmas feast and a Christmas to be remembered.
Anne’s
store is struggling, so in an attempt to save the shop, she takes on the
unusual order, from the unusual man.
She
tries employing actors, but illness put paid to that, so Anne decides to play
the wife and her helper at the store Jimmy (Craig Bryant Belwood) plays the eldest
child and the orphanage provided the rest of the family.
During
Christmas, Anne discovers why he has no family, and as she tries to fulfil all of his wishes, she
ends up finding something much greater.
In this Christmas tale of hope and second chances, conman and petty thief Conrad Dalton (Travis Breedlove) selects his next mark, Eve (Mandi Christine Kerr), but when he discovers that she is a struggling single mother who works at a homeless shelter, he decides to use his particular skillset to help make the approaching Christmas a memorable one for her and her son Parker (Landon Breedlove).
