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Last Christmas

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Romantic comedy starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding and Emma Thompson. London, 2017: life could be better for twenty-something chaos magnet Kate, who has her heart set on being a singer but works all year round as an elf in a Covent Garden store. Then she meets too-good-to-be true Tom. Could romance be in the air?

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Emma Simmonds

The hits of the sadly departed George Michael provide the musical backdrop to a sentimental seasonal offering from Bridesmaids director Paul Feig, which manages to be both dispiritingly conventional and occasionally very odd. Emilia Clarke plays Kate, the chaotic 26-year-old daughter of immigrants from the former Yugoslavia (with Emma Thompson the melodramatic matriarch). While working in a Christmas shop, Kate's fortunes change when she meets the too-good-to-be-true Tom (Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding), a cycle courier, soup kitchen volunteer and overeager tour guide. It's ostensibly a romantic comedy, but it stutters on both fronts, with Golding more strange than seductive and Clarke lacking the necessary comic chops. The script tackles the Brexit-effect and homelessness, but not even a bizarre twist can stop it from being bogged down by the usual clichés. In the end, it's more festive folly than Christmas cracker.

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Cast

rolenameKateEmilia ClarkeTomHenry GoldingPetraEmma ThompsonSantaMichelle YeohJoycePatti LuPoneMartaLydia LeonardIvanBoris IsakovicPolicewoman CrowleyIngrid OliverDr AddisRebecca RootIce show directorSue PerkinsTheatre producerPeter SerafinowiczTheatre directorRob DelaneyDoraAnna Calder-MarshallGuy in pubDavid Mumeni

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rolenameDirectorPaul Feig

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Theatrical distributor

Universal

Released on

2019-11-15

Languages

English | French

Guidance

Some swearing

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