CastDustin Hoffman
Emma Thompson
Eileen Atkins
Kathy Baker
Liane Balaban
James Brolin
Richard Schiff
Screenwriter
Joel Hopkins
Director
Joel Hopkins
Running Time
92 minutes
New Yorker Harvey Shine goes to London for a weekend to attend his daughter’s wedding but promises his boss that he'll be back on Monday morning to make an important meeting. Harvey arrives in London only to learn his daughter has chosen to have her stepfather walk her down the aisle instead of him. Doing his best to hide his devastation, he leaves the wedding before the reception in hopes of getting to the airport on time, but misses his plane anyway. When he calls his boss to explain, he is fired on the spot. Drowning his sorrows at the airport bar, Harvey strikes up a conversation with a woman named Kate, and finds himself energized by her intelligence and compassion. The growing connection between the pair inspires both as they unexpectedly transform one another’s lives. (Overture Films)
It was good and was helped tremendously by great performances. The mother sub-plot other than an explanation of why Kate kept getting calls was unnecessary and cut back to her too many times, the clip during the credits seemed entirely superfluous. [Spoiler] It has the same ending as practically all romantic comedies which always seems the most formulaic and contrived parts but that's how they end.
