Dustin Hoffman has been playing lovable losers his entire career it seems, The Graduate, Little Big Man and Marathon Man to name a few. I’ve been smitten by Emma Thompson ever since The Remains of the Day. Put them together in a romantic comedy and you have a sweet, if improbable, story that will inspire droves of hopeless romantics to update their profile on eHarmony.com. Hoffman has such an extraordinary way of communicating emotion through facial expression and body language. In the most powerful scenes he says very little. Thompson too is very expressive without words. She is extremely seductive as a vulnerable, neurotic spinster always on the verge of tears. Hoffman is a loser, but you can’t help but love the lost little gnome. Everyone will identify with some aspect of these two characters. It’s a fairytale and you know it’s going to have a happy ending, and these things don’t happen in the real world, and it really doesn’t make much sense, but you will cry anyway and think Love can be found and Life is too short to be miserable. Sometimes you just need to take a chance.