In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman), misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate (Emma Thompson), 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.
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I guess people over 40 need their very own "Before Sunrise." This would explain why such a thing as "Last Chance Harvey" exists. It's a twinkly, politely tame bit of punch-drunk love, complete with a whirlwind romance that moves so cautiously it hardly knocks you over. (Full review)