The Love Punch (2013)
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind the fraud...
The Love Punch (2013)
Information
Released Year: 2013
Runtime: 94 minutes
Genre: Comedy
Directors: Joel Hopkins
Writers: Joel Hopkins
Casts: Ellen Thomas, Emma Thompson, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall, Pierce Brosnan, Sabine Crossen, Marisa Berenson, Eleanor Matsuura, Christopher Craig, Tuppence Middleton, Louise Bourgoin, Laurent Lafitte, Tom Morton, Jordan Jones, Patrice Cols, Olivier Chantreau, Jack Wilkinson, Adam Byron, Vincent Haquin, Jean-Louis Barcelona, Senie Priti, Anna Brooke
IMDB: The Love Punch (2013)
Storyline
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind the fraud...
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Reviews
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Empire -
The by-the-numbers plotting is a little clunky but there's fun to be had in the cast's easy chemistry.
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TheWrap -
The Love Punch gets by in no small part thanks to the individual charms and collective chemistry between leads Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
Recognizable human behavior is not this film’s forte -- which wouldn’t be a problem if something else would take its place but Punch never finds the right tone for the heterogeneous material, with sweetly melodramatic scenes alternating with high drama, some light action and farce.
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Variety -
A creaky heist-caper comedy that hopes to get by on sunny amiability.
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The Dissolve -
Thompson and Brosnan really are fine romantic foils. They deserve a better movie to trade barbs in. They deserve better barbs to trade.
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