The audience "Last Chance Harvey" is courting has seen this before in countless romantic comedies. What could have been "Before Sunrise" for the older set--an intelligent look at a relationship through conversation--is instead a movie about logistics. Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are still world-class actors. Nobody needs to see them in a trying-on-dresses montage set to upbeat music.
Needing to meet the minimum movie-length of ninety minutes, writer-director Joel Hopkins adds a subplot involving Kate's (Thompson) mother. She suspiciously watches her new neighbor using his smokehouse, thinking he's dispatching murder victims. But he's actually smoking large hams. Yes, he's using the smokehouse for its original purpose. Mystery solved.
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