This film deserves way more than 3 stars. There's no sex, violence or action chases, just a gentle grown-up file for grown-ups about 2 lonely people finding romance. It's not slow at the beginning; it's establishing who the characters are and their situations. Without that, you won't understand some of what happens and is said later on.
A real class act, beautifully played by 2 actors at their peak.

I found this quite slow to get going as the film plods along setting the scene for the lead roles to meet and of course fall for each other.
Once we reach the halfway mark the film picks up some spped and you begin to get into the story a little more.It is a really nice story that is well acted by the brilliant Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson who hold the film together with good performances.
Not worth buying as there is little rewatch value but worth picking up on rental for a quiet evening in.

This film was quite slow to get going, the two lead actors are as usual brilliant. The problem is with the story, it takes an age to gather pace and when it finally does you are left to ponder the fact that really there is rather little point to it all. The film left me and my wife rather bored and quite honestly it really doesn't entertain. The film is dull and it even manages to make the fantastic london setting look dull. I was very disappointed in the film and ultimately it has been done better many times before.