Ali Starzyk EDITOR



You're sixty years old and it might as well be over. It's scary as once again the world looms over you like that frightening place you thought you had conquered by marrying the girl, getting the job, raising the family. And it was alright when the girl turned out to be irrevocably flawed, or the job made you feel trapped, or the family no longer needed you. Time was on your side. You were thirty, forty, fifty even, and the "end" wasn't even a consideration. But something noticeable changed when you crossed the threshold into your twilight years. You could literally hear the clock ticking, counting away the precious days, minutes, seconds, time spent mulling over "what kind of life was this? why me?" yet also "oh god, not now, not yet." Enter the dreary world of Last Chance Harvey, a (depressingly scenario-ed) comedy about having nothing to lose with the end in sight yet still attempting to give it all another shot. With his daughter's wedding on the horizon at which her stepfather received the important role of giving away the bride, suddenly acquired label of "unemployed", and no foreseeable change of fate in the near future, Dustin Hoffman's deadbeat burnt-out Harvey has pretty much declared "game over". Enter Emma Thompson, semi-famous author, airport bar patron, and spinster extraordinaire whose life has have taken a similarly unfulfilled path. Forging an unlikely bond that transcends any previous lifestyle, the two band together on a joint mission to effect change within their separate unhappinesses. You can practically hear the film screaming it's message "...never too late!" as once Hoffman and Thompson allow themselves to see past seemingly insurmountable differences like age, culture, and height, they also have a chance at happiness. Having worked together in under-appreciated "Stranger Than Fiction", this unexpected duo bring their chemistry to hopefully another quirky yet somehow impressive story that gives hope to second chances, late starts, and finding meaning when all is lost.
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