Last Chance Harvey(2008)

 

Production Year:2008

Directed By:Joel HOPKINS

Written and Screenplay By:Joel HOPKINS

Produced By: Nicole USBORNE,Tim PERELL

Main Cast:Dustin HOFFMAN,Emma THOMPSON,Kathy BAKER,James BROLIN and Susan SHINE

Preview of the Movie:It’s a half American and half British production movie.Harvey Shine is a New Yorker who is a jingle writer of TV commercials and advertisements.His professional life doesn’t go well and he is about to lose his job.To prevent that he is taken a last chance by his boss.First he will go to London for his daughter’s wedding at the weekend and when he’s back,on Monday,he will be given a chance to improve himself in significant business meeting.But things don’t happen as they’re planned and he misses his flight back to New York and also his chance to maintain his career.This delay gives him a surprise arrival for his life while he’s waiting at the airport.This surprise is a fourty-year-old Kate who is miserable and bored of her own life as Harvey.Harvey has to use his last chance to upgrade his life after meeting Kate.

Info about the Movie:  According to the media news,at the beginning process of the movie Emma Thompson was anxious to work together with Dustin Hoffman again after their former movie “Stranger Than Fiction(2006)”.When Joel Hopkins ,who is a director and also a screenwriter of the movie,brought the script to Thompson she suggested him to accommodate Hoffman first.At the same time Hoffman had already agreed to portray Harvey character if Hopkins would allow him the leeway to improvise some scenes of the movie.Thereon Hopkins complied that and several of Harvey and Kate’s conversations were ad-libbed with keeping the dictates of the plot.

Awards that the Movie Nominated for:

2009 Golden Globe Awards-Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical “Emma THOMPSON”

2009 Golden Globe Awards-Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical “Dustin HOFFMAN”