Last Chance Harvey Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

London RomCom with a difference

Last Chance Harvey was a treat to watch. Filmed in London by Director Joel Hopkins

when he lived in USA at a time when he felt homesick for his home city, meant that the scenes he shot did not depict the typical tourist view of Town. Somerset House fountains at dawn when the road sweeper was doing a round, buskers in the

book mart on the South Bank and through a window of the National Theatre, to name but a few. And we learned about the home sickness part from Joel Hopkins himself. Thecinema had arranged for the film's Director to be introduced by a film critic to give a small talk at the end of the show and to answer questions from the audience. He spoke about writing the script, trying to get it accepted, working with Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson and the interplay between playright (also Joel Hopkins) and famous actors in script wrting and editing. He mentioned his wish next time to direct a film that someone else had written.

One girl in the audience who like us, very much enjoyed the film, asked Joel Hopkins how he had managed to depict in such accurate fashion, the relationship between a single woman of a certain age (Emma Thompson) and her mother (Eileen Atkins). This elicited comment from Mr Hopkins that he got on well with his own mother - there was laughter from the circle seats and it then transpired that his mum and other family members were present - and that he was self evidently not a single girl.

nice film,shame about its predictability

it does make you wonder why two excellent actors - dustin hoffman and emma thompson bothered to make this film; its okay, the story is very predictable, just a bit pointless