Last Chance Harvey

Dec 25, 2008

1h 39m

★ 6.3

When it comes to love, is it ever too late to take a chance?

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Process Productions

Overture Films

Paramount Vantage

Last Chance Harvey Trailers

Cast

Harvey Shine

Dustin Hoffman

Kate Walker

Emma Thompson

Maggie Walker

Eileen Atkins

Jean

Kathy Baker

Susan Shine Wright

Liane Balaban

Scott Wright

Daniel Lapaine

Brian

James Brolin

Marvin

Richard Schiff

Aggie

Wendy Mae Brown

Oonagh

Bronagh Gallagher

Matt

Jeremy Sheffield

Simon

Patrick Baladi

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