Writer/Director: Joel Hopkins
Year: 2008
Cinematographer: John de Borman
I got sucker'd. I saw Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, two spectacular actors on a DVD poster, with the plot sold to me as this... two old single people fall sweetly and improbably in love. I was in. I wanted to see these two actors fall in love, I thought it would be so charming...
I was hugely disappointed. The script is cliché after cliché, it gets lost in scenes that have nothing to do with the central plot (the wedding scene) and then Dustin Hoffman out of nowhere has a medical problem that was not set up earlier in the film, just so the film can have an excuse for the so common accidental stand-up date. Emma Thompson is then overly angry about it, and for no reason Hoffman is reluctant to explain why he couldn't show up... in the end he runs to go get her, and they ride off in a bus (Graduate anyone?) but not as well done. The stakes are never high, you know from the beginning they will end up together, and I never once felt that destiny being genuinely threatened.
Watch "The Graduate."
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