Emma Thompson

...anyone out of their coats. You do this stuff, you're enjoying life." In the film, Hoffman plays hapless New Yorker Harvey Shine, who befriends Thompson's character Kate. The romantic film is written and directed by Briton Joel Hopkins,...

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...prefer to have her stepfather give her away. Twice at the airport he encounters Thompson's character, Kate, a graying bureaucrat with an incessantly meddling mother and a nonexistent dating life. After Harvey fails to accept Kate's brushoff,...

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...plays Harvey, a failed jazz pianist who has found success writing jingles for TV ads. Thompson plays Kate, an airport interviewer for a British agency. Harvey flies to London to attend his daughter's wedding, and in the space of 24 hours he...

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June 3, 2009 Last Chance Harvey: Set in London, this romantic comedy stars Dustin Hoffman as Harvey Shine, a divorced and haggard jingle-writer who bumps into Kate, played by Emma Thompson, an airport employee. Suddenly taken by...

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...of another man (James Brolin, white-haired and elegant). Thompson is Kate, a middle-aged Heathrow employee whose sad, intelligent eyes mirror the life that has passed her by. She has several busybody co-workers and a mother (Eileen...

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...not being perfect for each other, and even less chance of them not ending up together. Even so, Hoffman and Thompson go through the motions of pretending that falling for each other may prove more complicated than the film has any intention...

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...saw in "The Graduate," and it's still working. But the movie belongs to Thompson, who radiates an irresistible, fluttery sanity, and who can make a crying jag both heartbreaking and funny. "I think I'm more comfortable being disappointed,"...

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...through it, although guided by a more confident hand. "Jump" caught Thompson's eye, and the two talked - a conversation that led Hopkins to write the role of Kate for the actress. There were hints of what a teaming of Thompson and...

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