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First, the actors, they are the best at what they do, and they have great chemistry together. You really believe it.
Second, I have always been a nerd, and because of that all the people that thought they were "IN" always thought I was out; which didn't bother me too much because being a nerd, I was "in to" whatever I was doing too much to really care. But I knew it, and that they rolled their eyes, and acted like I just did not get "it" always rankled.
Spoiler alert, don't read the rest if you don't want to know anything about the film...
Dustin Hoffman plays a musician, who always wanted to write great works, but made a very good living as a jingle writer...but it took up most of his time and attention, and somewhere along the way his first wife decided he was no fun, and she found someone who was "in" and rich, handsome and fun...like she immagined she was. And poor old Dustin, was left in the dirt by his wife and daughter. And pretty soon, even his employers looked at the outside of him and thought it was the same as the inside of him and didn't want him either.
Good ole Emma Thompson (just seeing her makes me feel better, no matter what film she is in) she just never really made it out of the starting gate, never married and now too old to have children. All she has left is a clingly nerotic mother, that calls her all day long, every day...ad nauseum!
So these two lonely people, ignored or unvalued by other people meet, and the world becomes a wonderful place for them, and for us watching them. It's wonderful. But it is GENTLE, and quiet, and just beautifull in a natural way; not like the beauty of the Alps, or Disney Land. But the beauty of a hummingbird, or the way the dew hangs on the branches catching the sunlight.
I loved the scenery, and the colors...this is London, so think muted. I just found it all relaxing and it makes me smile.
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A man down on his luck finds an unlikely companion while attending his daughter's wedding in London.
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Anyone who’s seen the trailer for Last Chance Harvey can easily guess how it ends. In fact, the title alone is a clue. But the destination is hardly the point with movies like this; it’s the journey that counts, and this one is pretty entertaining. You could call director-writer Joel Hopkins’ film a romantic comedy, but it’s not especially robust in either of those departments. This is more of a character study, and veteran lead actors Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are well up to the task of bringing theirs to life. Both are awkward, lonely, social misfits. Hoffman’s Harvey Shine is a bit of a schlub; his gig as a jingle composer in jeopardy, estranged from his ex-wife (Kathy Baker) and daughter (Liane Balaban), he flies to London for the latter’s wedding, only to have her tell him that she has chosen her step-father (James Brolin) rather than him to give her away. Meanwhile, Kate Walker (Thompson) spends her days trying to survey harried travelers at Heathrow Airport, answering her meddling mother’s constant stream of cell phone calls, and awaiting the all-to-inevitable onset of spinsterhood. Harvey has already brushed her off once when, having put in a humiliating appearance at the wedding and missed his return flight to America, he runs into her in an airport bar. What ensues--the initial repartee and sarcastic snarking, the gradual breaking of the ice, the burgeoning attraction, the complications and misunderstandings--is entirely predictable. But it’s also well done. These are people one might actually identify with; when Kate tells him, "I’m more comfortable with being disappointed. I’m angry with you for trying to take that away," one senses a real person in there, which helps raise Last Chance Harvey above its conventions. --Sam Graham Fennessy
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Frequent Customer
A good Love Story, my type of film, loved it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2015Verified Purchase
Mr. R. S. Young
Good film, bad buy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2018Verified Purchase
S.M. Johnson
Last Chance - First Chance
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2014Verified Purchase
Peter Thomsen, DK
Very good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 20, 2017Verified Purchase
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Don't Miss This Film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2013Verified Purchase
