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Last Chance Harvey
There isn’t much to Last Chance Harvey, directed by Joel Hopkins other than the sight of two old pros doing their thing and having a good time. Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is squeezing in a trip to London for his estranged daughter’s wedding before a big work presentation that his boss (Richard Schiff) tells him is his “last chance.” Harvey is a commercial jingle writer, but we know that there is more to him thanks to an opening scene where he’s noodling around with his own jazz piano composition (which Hoffman actually wrote). A lifetime’s worth of the professional treadmill has left Harvey creatively unfulfilled.
Gran Torino
Can we just agree that Clint Eastwood isn’t playing himself? The mild-mannered, self-deprecating man we see on Charlie Rose is miles removed from the bull-headed and gruff Walt Kowalski, the widowed Korean War vet Eastwood plays in Gran Torino. White men are an endangered species in Walt’s Detroit neighborhood, where he spends his days drinking beer on the porch while muttering racist comments at the house next door. The new neighbors are a Hmong family whose number appears flexible and whose members mostly don’t speak English. The Hmong characters aren’t differentiated much except for Sue (Ahney Her), a smart and friendly teenage girl with attitude, and Tao (Bee Vang). It’s the shy and awkward Tao who brings his family in contact with Walt. An older cousin pressures Tao to join a Hmong gang the initiation requires Tao to steal Walt’s beloved 1972 Gran Torino. Walt scares Tao off with a gunshot, and the rest of the movie is the unlikely friendship that forms as Tao tries to work off his debt.
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