Last Chance Harvey

Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson meet not quite so cute in a London airport. He's a recently unemployed ad agency song writer and she conducts surveys at Heathrow. He's in the UK to attend his daughter's wedding but she wants her step father to give her away. Thompson takes care of her mum and doesn't want complications in her life, especially with some American twit who was rude to her at her job.
What a pair to hook up, yet they form a platonic duo and walk and talk across London. In this sense Last Chance Harvey resembles Before Sunset for the older generation. The big difference was that the Linklater formula (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset) was all about the conversation.
Last Chance Harvey is all about the plot twist and not so much about the luxury of the word. Hoffman and Thompson are good enough to overcome the plot factor but a quiet bit of verbiage would've made this film an art house special rather than a conventional also ran. Other actors like Richard Schiff, Eileen Atkins, Kathy Baker and James Brolin are good in supporting roles.