Last Chance Harvey [DVD]

Two wonderfull lead actorsPerfectBackdrop of London looking well, I lived there for many years and after I left I often felt homesick for it and movies like this are like beautiful memories and a mini break all in one.Highly recommended for the cast, the story and the scenery.

Brilliant an easy watch

Great easy watching film with great cast , heart warming .

Lovely film I'm glad I purchased this one it's the sort of film that I watch more then once.

Someone needs to realise that when you are making a film in the centre of London, people recognise the landmarks. So going from Paddington to Somerset House via Hungerford Bridge and the South Bank doesn't work.

Overall I enjoyed it

Dustin Hoffman burst onto the cinema screen in 1967as Ben the lead in 'the Graduate' He was thirty years old playing a twenty year old. The film was hilarious and instantly became a cult film and has remained so. Anne Bancroft played the female lead, Mrs. Robinson a family friend of his parents. He always called her Mrs. Robinson even during their torrid love scenes and the song 'Here's to you Mrs. Robinson' became a hit for Simon and Garfunkel: and very pretty it was too. Mike Nicholls directed, and made his name too. So that was then. Over the years Dustin Hoffman has given us some amazing performances - Tootsie, Midnight Cowboy, Rainman. Very unusual characters expertly portrayed. And now here is 'Last Chance Harvey'. A slight story, almost soppy I would say and would suggest that Hoffman and Emma Thompson decided to do it because they weren't doing anything else. So here is this chunky seventysomething who is no looker playing the romantic lead. And very charmingly he does it too. A wealth of experience goes into his characterisation and it his performance which makes the film a pleasure to watch.

I ordered this product in good faith and find that, on receipt, I cannot play it on my DVD player as the operating system (if that is the word) is incompatible. I appreciated that it was imported from the US but did not realise the significance. No indication of this was given on the website.I will hope to return it.

DVD tecnicamente perfetto. La storia è riportata in inglese nella presentazione del DVD su Amazon e in italiano su Wikipedia sotto il titolo 'Oggi è già domani': delicata trama d'amore che nasce fra due persone ormai pienamente adulte, rese prudenti dall'esperienza, ma ancora pronte a correre il rischio dell'innamoramento e dell'amore, naturalmente con le tinte e le nuances dell'incombente tramonto della vita adulta. Nuance rese in modo impareggiabile dalla Thompson, con Dustin Hofman irrigidito da una greve situazione professionale che l'amore gli consentirà infine di gettarsi dietro le spalle. Un film pulito, niente volgarità, istruttivo, tenero tenero ma controllato. Un vero capolavoro, e con prove d'artista indimenticabili.

Todo perfecto

This is definitely not a RomCom in the accepted sense of the genre. There are no comedic situations and nobody touches, let alone kisses. Rather, it's a sensitive probing of two people at opposite ends of middle age who, in a chance encounter over a weekend, help each other recognize and overcome the defensive walls they have constructed to protect their respective hearts. The script is excellent with realistic and amusing dialogue which, wonder of wonders, manages to get through the entire film without recourse to even one 4 letter epithet. Hoffman and Thompson are so good they had me emotionally involved in their characters 10 minutes into the film before they even met. Not for everyone, the movie is all about characters, whose problems I doubt many under 25 would understand or sympathize with.The writer-director, an ex-pat Londoner, claims in the extras that he made this as a postcard to London and that he tried to make the city look like Paris. Why? How? The only similarity between the cities is a river runs through them. I lived in the west end of London years ago and the movie conjured no nostalgia in me. It's a view of areas I'm unfamiliar with. Still, the locations give the threadbare story a very pretty, romantic background.

Todo correcto y en su tiempo

Film molto bello, magistralmente interpretato.Due tra i miei attori preferiti di sempre. Una storia lieve, normale e fantastica allo stesso tempo, che potrebbe succedere a tutti, forse......Nell'arco di una giornata apparentemente normale, cambia per sempre la vita di due persone, che più lontane non potrebbero essere, in tutti i sensi.Il titolo originale, Last chance Harvey, sta ad indicare appunto, o oggi o mai più, l'ultima occasione per essere felice. Il tutto sullo sfondo di una Londra apparentemente indifferente ma complice, a modo suo. Film consigliatissimo se non altro per godere dell'ennesima prova della grande versatilità di questi due attori fantastici.