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Last Chance Harvey
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.
2008 · Directed by Joel Hopkins · 99 min · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 8 frames
Tagline
When it comes to love, is it ever too late to take a chance?
Plot
Divorced American Harvey Shine writes television commercial jingles despite being a jazz pianist and composer. As he departs for his daughter Susan's wedding in London, his job is tenuous. On arrival at Heathrow Airport, he encounters single Londoner Kate Walker, who collects statistics from passengers as they pass through the terminals. Harvey brusquely dismisses her, for he is eager to get to his hotel.
At the hotel, Harvey finds he is the only wedding guest booked there, as the house his ex-wife Jean has rented is for all the US guests, except him. At the rehearsal dinner, Harvey is clearly an outsider to his daughter's life, and is excluded from Jean's new husband Brian's clan. Their insincere politeness makes him uncomfortable.
Harvey tells Susan that he can attend the ceremony but not the reception, for he has to urgently return to the States. She replies that, as Brian has been more of a father to her recently than he, she prefers that Brian walk her down the aisle.
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Crew
- Written by: Joel Hopkins
- Cinematography: John de Borman
- Edited by: Robin Sales
- Music: Dickon Hinchliffe
- Production design: Jon Henson
- Produced by: Nicola Usborne, Tim Perell
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Harvey Shine
- Emma Thompson as Kate Walker
- Eileen Atkins as Maggie Walker
- Kathy Baker as Jean
- Liane Balaban as Susan Shine Wright
- Daniel Lapaine as Scott Wright
- James Brolin as Brian
- Richard Schiff as Marvin
- Wendy Mae Brown as Aggie
- Bronagh Gallagher as Oonagh
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Process Productions, Overture Films, Paramount Vantage
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Box office: $32,600,000
- Themes: work, parent child relationship, wedding, duringcreditsstinger, american in the uk
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