Last Chance Harvey

THE cheeky Dustin Hoffman and the croaky Emma Thompson prove that you don’t have to be 16 to have a fine romance on screen these days with Last Chance Harvey (USA/12A/92mins), a charming little film all about falling in love just when everything else in your life seems to be falling apart.

Hoffman plays sad sack New York jingle composer Harvey Shine, in London for the wedding of his daughter (Liane Balaban) when he bumps into Emma Thompson’s bookish would-be author Kate Walker, not once, but twice.