‘Last Chance Harvey’ is all about Emma

If there’s such a thing as the Laptop Lotto for screenwriters, “Last Chance Harvey” writer-director Joel Hopkins hit the Superball. Hopkins, best known for his award-winning 1998 short film “Jorge,” somehow scored Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson for a screenplay that, by rights, should have snagged Daniel Hugh Kelly and Catherine Oxenberg before winding up on one of the channels you’d ignore on a trans-Atlantic airline.

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Review: `Harvey' has overload of cliche, chance

It's nice to see filmmakers occasionally spin a story of fresh romance for the aging set. Yet it's disappointing that "Last Chance Harvey" casts actors with the craft and chemistry of Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson into a love story as sappy and shallow as any other in Hollywood.

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Emma Thompson: Rise in Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is on the rise, but making sure girls receive birth certificates can make it more difficult for them to fall victim to the crime, Emma Thompson said Tuesday.

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Emma Thompson Gets Inside Ferrell's Head

On the set of his latest movie, Will Ferrell did whatever the little voice in his head told him to do. Luckily, the words arrived in the classy voice of Emma Thompson.

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Actress Emma Thompson has played fictional characters on the big screen for 20 years, but her latest project tackles the real-life horrors of human trafficking.

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Young Woman's Drive to Get the Petition for Roman Polanksi's Release Dropped Gaining Noteriety – and Signatures

A university student’s effort to “Drop the petition for Roman Polanksi's release” is gaining public attention, and has resulted in at least one celebrity withdrawing their name from French philosopher’s Bernard-Henri Lévy’s petition calling fo …

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UK Exeter Uni student: "We talked for 15 minutes and by the end she said she would get her name removed. She said regardless of the fact she knows him and the terrible things he has been through, a crime is a crime."

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Forgive us dear Lord oh how we have failed your children. It's not bad enough that we allow stravation and slave labor but this was in our own back yard. Note the child's mother was a nurse and worked in the health industry.

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This poor defensless child had been examined by doctors and known to have genital herpes. The state was notified by failed the child which resulted in her death.

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Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

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The Sunday Telegraph in London (www.telegraph.co.uk/news) has learnt that the new film version of Brideshead Revisited features a gay kiss between the film's two leading men. In one scene the character of Sebastian Flyte, played by Ben Whishaw tries to kiss Charles Ryder.

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Brideshead Revisited (Again) - A Video Essay Marking the New Hollywood Release

NOTE: The hyperlinks in this article provide snippets from YouTube of the original 1981 classic aired in the United States on PBS's Great Performances, Emma Thompson's performance in Carrington, the Miramax trailer for the new film, and Stephane Audran's small but memorable role  …

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This is an urgent, eloquent, and important plea from award-winning actress and humanitarian Emma Thompson.

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Stranger than Fiction - a Belated Review

I have a net-flix account that I am pretty bad at using. I have had three DVDs sitting on top of my TV since mid-august waiting on me to watch them.

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Stranger Than Fiction (movie review)

genre: drama / comedy. director: Marc Forster. starring: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman.

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Review: Stranger Than Fiction

'This is a story about a man named Harold Crick, and his wristwatch...' says an an omniscient voice at the beginning of Stranger Than Fiction. It's actually a little more than that, though.

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