Not the most mesmerizing of love stories, "Last Chance Harvey" is your average modern romance comedy, about and for the 40-plus crowd (think "Before Sunrise" for the older set), where an emotionally ill-equipped man falls for a similar type girl who teaches him how to love. Indeed, we're in the midst of the post holiday romantic flick season, but Harvey isn't technically, a rom-com; this is more of a slow-paced drama of late bloomers falling in love over a summer weekend in London.

Dustin Hoffman plays Harvey Shine, a closed-off workaholic jingle writer trapped in a desperate slump. We learn fairly quickly how little everyone thinks of him: his bosses consider him a dinosaur, his ex-wife, a loser, and his daughter, a liability. When Harvey tells the boss (Richard Schiff) that he is flying to London over the weekend for the marriage of his estranged daughter (Liane Balaban), he receives a stern warning that his job is in jeopardy unless he's back for an important meeting the following Monday morning.

So, needing to get his personal life on track, Harvey flies off to London for the impending wedding, a journey he takes in figuring this out fuels this curiously understated film. He would like to reconcile the strained relationship with his daughter, Susan, but soon comes to regret his decision to attend when, just before the ceremony, he sees what an outsider he has become in his own family; the second husband (James Brolin) of his wife (Kathy Baker) will be walking the bride down the aisle.

Poor Harvey is nothing more than an awkward interloper. Devastated by the snub, he scurries back to Heathrow, but because of a citywide traffic jam, he misses his flight. When he calls to explain and apologize, his boss tells him he is fired. So, while drowning his sorrows at the bar of an airport restaurant, he becomes instantly smitten with Kate (Emma Thompson), the empty bar's only other customer.