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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Actors:
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James Brolin,
Emma Thompson,
Liane Balaban,
Bronagh Gallagher,
Michael Landes,
Jeremy Sheffield,
Wendy Mae Brown,
Dustin Hoffman,
Eileen Atkins,
Kathy Baker,
Richard Schiff,
Daniel Lapaine,
Patrick Baladi,
Adam James
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Duration:
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93 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)109.5
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Plot Summary:
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Harvey Radiance is in London the weekend object of his daughter's intermingling. His work in New York preoccupies him: he writes music throughout ads, and he knows his boss is pushing him aside by reason of younger talent. With lineage he's also on the sidelines - long divorced, his wife remarried, her husband closer to his daughter than he. His path crosses that of Kate Walker, unmarried, her life-force becoming that of a spinster, set up before friends on blind dates greatest nowhere. After Harvey's no good bad prime, he chats Kate up at a Heathrow bar. She's not interested. Where can this... gossip outrun? Back at his daughter's soir‚e, the step-cur‚ rises to depleted a good wishes.
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Last Chance Harvey
Retooling the romcom for an ageing audience is hardly a new idea: Woody Allens mid-90s output sports a few deft...
Last Chance Harvey
Last Chance Harvey finds Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson on top form as veteran losers in love who decide to seize the day before arthritis sets in. It's the years of baggage they bring while on a day out in London that lifts the film above so many other romantic comedies, which are frequently the reserve of the vacuous, the wide-eyed and the wrinkle-free. So much bitter disappointment, all of it written of their faces, has left Harvey (Dustin Hoffman) and Kate (Emma Thompson) lagging behind in the race to find love, and that makes the quest all the more urgent. What makes it surprising, despite a familiar plot, is the fact that these two show a greater level of faith and optimism in life than those neurotic twentysomethings who apart from watching too many w...
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