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Last Chance Harvey | 2008 | PG-13 | - 3.1.4
A divorced composer of commercial jingles (Dustin Hoffman) travels to London to attend his daughter's wedding, and upon arrival he realizes just how much he has missed by not being a part of his daughter's life. After meeting a woman (Emma Thompson) in an airport lounge, he realizes that maybe second chances are possible. Also with James Brolin, Richard Schiff, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker and Lian Balaban. Directed by Joel Hopkins. [1:39]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - A husband and a wife kiss. A husband kisses his wife on the cheek.
► A man showers and we see his bare shoulders and the top of his chest. Women wear low-cut dresses that reveal cleavage, bare backs, bare shoulders and arms in several scenes. A woman's blouse is unbuttoned and reveals cleavage. A woman models several dresses for a man in a shop.
► An elderly man reads from a story that he has written and describes the "smell of sex," and the "taste of salt" as being "sexy." A woman asks her adult daughter what she is wearing and the daughter says, "A mini skirt and a boob tube." A woman talks about a man her friend is on a date with and says he is "young and full of energy." A woman tells another woman that her mother is ruining her sex life and refers to her as human "contraception." Two women talk about going on a blind date with two men. A woman talks about her father having left her mother for his secretary. A woman tells a man that she was pregnant once but didn't have the baby.
► Two women meet two men in a bar for a date.
VIOLENCE/GORE 1 - A man falls and grabs his chest while breathing heavily (he's having heart trouble and we see him in the hospital).
► A woman's doorbell rings and she is afraid to answer it when she sees a man outside; he leaves something on her doorstep and she brings it in (it's a package wrapped in brown paper).
► A woman tells a man that he better not hurt her friend (romantically). A woman tells a man that she was pregnant once but that she didn't have the baby. A woman is hurt when a man does not come to a scheduled meeting. A woman tells her father that she is going to ask her stepfather to give her away at her wedding (he is visibly hurt). A woman becomes nervous about a man in a shack when smoke billows out and at one point he carries a large bound sack that resembles the shape of a person. A woman talks about her mother thinking she lives next to Jack the Ripper. A man talks about the children of divorce suffering. A woman tells a man that love hurts too much.
LANGUAGE 4 - 3 sexual references, 10 scatological references, name-calling (stupid, cantankerous, pathetic), 4 exclamations (shut-up), 1 religious exclamation.
SUBSTANCE USE - People drink alcohol in a few bar scenes, a man and a woman drink at a bar, people drink toasts with champagne in a couple of scenes, and a woman tells her ex-husband that he should go easy on the alcohol (he becomes upset). A woman brings her mother a prescription medication.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Divorce, estranged parents, step-parenting, marriage of children, feeling left out, regret, loss of a job, romance, hopes, saying what you feel, cancer, dreams, goals, grand-parenting, abortion, strength, children of divorce, aging parents, blind dates, second chances, wanting to live a different life, feeling important.
MESSAGE - Second chances can be possible.
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