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Last Chance Harvey
2009
New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else. Harvey arrives in London .. Read more
| Starring | Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker |
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| Director | Joel Hopkins |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Romance |
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Last Chance Harvey
New Yorker Harvey Shine is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter's wedding but promises to be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting--or else. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate, a slightly prickly, 40-something employee of the Office of National Statistics. Kate, whose life is limited to work, the occasional humiliating blind date and endless phone calls from her smothering mother, is touched by Harvey, who finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another's lives.
| Starring | Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker, Liane Balaban, James Brolin, Richard Schiff |
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| Director | Joel Hopkins |
| Studio | MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 39 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 33 mins Watch now: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Collections | UK top 50 weekly chart |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 02 Nov 2009 Blu-ray: 02 Nov 2009 Watch now: 14 Nov 2009 Production year: 2009 |
| Watch now | £3.49 |
| Format | DVD |
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Retooling the romcom for an ageing audience is hardly a new idea: Woody Allens mid-90s output sports a few deft... read more on Time Out
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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. -
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Last chance harvey
Wow - what a wonderful film - great feel good movie *****
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Last Chance Harvey
- 03 Jun 2009
Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is a composer… a composer of jingles. That is, he used to be – as the movie begins he’s been shown the door, he just refuses to go through it. Go he must, though, to attend his daughter’s wedding in London. Harvey’s wife has remarried and it’s clear he wasn’t around as much as he might have been when Susan (Liane Balaban) was growing up. He’s never met the groom. Even so, he’s dismayed to find he’s been... Read more
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