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The Love Punch

  • 2013
  • PG-13
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
17K
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Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson in The Love Punch (2013)
Retirement should be a time for kicking back and taking it easy, but Richard and his ex-wife Kate are waving goodbye to their golden years after a fraudulent businessman steals their pension fund, causing them to hatch a scheme to get it all back -- and more.
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A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them.A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them.A divorced couple scheme to recover the retirement money that was stolen from them.

  • Director
    • Joel Hopkins
  • Writers
    • Joel Hopkins
    • Tess Morris
  • Stars
    • Pierce Brosnan
    • Emma Thompson
    • Timothy Spall
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    17K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Joel Hopkins
    • Writers
      • Joel Hopkins
      • Tess Morris
    • Stars
      • Pierce Brosnan
      • Emma Thompson
      • Timothy Spall
    • 83User reviews
    • 83Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    The Love Punch: Richard Tells Kate The Company Has Gone Under
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    The Love Punch: The Group Of 4 Actors
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    Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan
    • Richard
    Emma Thompson
    Emma Thompson
    • Kate
    Timothy Spall
    Timothy Spall
    • Jerry
    Celia Imrie
    Celia Imrie
    • Pen
    Louise Bourgoin
    Louise Bourgoin
    • Manon Fontaine
    Laurent Lafitte
    Laurent Lafitte
    • Vincent Kruger
    Marisa Berenson
    Marisa Berenson
    • Clothilde
    Olivier Chantreau
    • Jean-Baptiste Durain
    Ellen Thomas
    Ellen Thomas
    • Doreen
    Tuppence Middleton
    Tuppence Middleton
    • Sophie
    Jack Wilkinson
    • Matt
    Adam Byron
    Adam Byron
    • Tyler
    John Ramm
    • Ken
    Jean-Louis Barcelona
    • Minion
    Eleanor Matsuura
    Eleanor Matsuura
    • Michaela
    • (as Eleanor Matsuraa)
    Bruce MacEwen
    • Texan couple man 1
    • (as Bruce McEwen)
    Christophe Prévost
    • Texan couple man 2
    • (as Christophe Prevost)
    Sabine Crossen
    Sabine Crossen
    • Texan couple woman 1
    • Director
      • Joel Hopkins
    • Writers
      • Joel Hopkins
      • Tess Morris
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    User reviews83

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    5TheSquiss

    Middle-aged heist. Won't upset granny, fun & occasionally funny.

    Kate (Emma Thompson) and Richard (Pierce Brosnan) are a happily divorced couple, with two well-mannered children, an excellent (platonic) friendship, a comfortable home each, a lifestyle many aspire to and retirement that is pleasantly near. Then Richard discovers an unscrupulous businessman has stripped his company of all its assets and left them, and many of his staff, jobless and unable to pay the mortgage. With retirement on hold, they hatch a plan to exact their revenge and seize back their money. All they need to do is steal his latest acquisition: the world's biggest diamond.

    The Love Punch is fluff. It is nonsense, deeply flawed, as shallow and predictable as a stomp in a puddle and unlikely to bother any award ceremonies or be a threat to any hard-hitting movies currently vying for screen space. However, it is also completely inoffensive, mostly fun, occasionally funny and the kind of film you can take the family (including granny) along to without causing anyone any offence. Just make sure you reward your teenagers with something they actually want to see afterwards; they just might need a does of Afflicted to clean the fluff from their brains afterwards.

    Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan had apparently wanted to work together for years but had been waiting for the right project to come along. Joel Hopkins, with whom Thompson worked on Last Chance Harvey, granted their wish. Perhaps they should have waited a little longer.

    The Love Punch is simplistic, ill thought out and riddled with errors. At one point, director/writer Hopkins has Richard moan "What do you think we are? The Pink Panther?", presumably unaware that the Pink Panther was not the thief but the diamond itself. It is this kind of silly clumsiness that spoils the enjoyment.

    Though Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie, as their friends Jerry and Penelope, are welcome additions to proceedings and enable the heist to get underway, the comedy highlights generally occur between Thompson and Brosnan when Kate and Richard are alone and just getting on with their relationship. Most of the stilted moments and embarrassing clunks occur, much like in Brosnan's recent swamp experience, A Long Way Down, when all four are together and trying too hard to be funny.

    The Love Punch falls short of the effortless humour and feel great factor of 2011's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel but it is far from being a turkey. It lacks the sharpness required to really satisfy and, with a little more work, it could have been a riot, but it is an easy, enjoyable waste of 90 minutes.

    Overall, The Love Punch is like that third mug of tea on a lazy Sunday morning; it's quite enjoyable but you didn't really need it, it doesn't match expectations and you certainly won't remember it this time next week.

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    7kosmasp

    Good old times

    Maybe the movie only "deserves" a 6 out of 10, but our main actors and their interplay alone is worth that extra point I gave it. It really feels like those two know each other their whole life, but we knew how good both are acting wise. The movie is also not really hiding the fact that it knows that we know where it is heading. We shall have fun on the ride there though.

    And we can have fun, if we let ourselves. It's easy like that, just enjoy the two and some odd jokes along the way (let's call a repeated joke video chat "bombing", taken from photo bombing someone of course). Characters are very aware of what they are doing and in what movie they are in (villains are villains you see). Just enjoy if for what it is :o)
    5krzysiektom

    Not funny enough

    Despite good ingredients like good acting, charming actors and nice locations, the film disappoints as a comedy. The script and dialogs are not funny enough.
    5alfredsmith

    Enjoyable Fluff

    I do enjoy a good British romantic comedy. My guilty pleasure I guess. They just make you laugh and feel good, just a little escapism and shouldn't be taken seriously. Being serious, well, that's for other films. Having said that, this movie has so many things wrong with it, it should be a huge failure, but oddly enough I loved it. I thought the two leads Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson were exceptionally well cast as they were so believable and likable. The other "good guy" Anglo-Saxon characters were good and as in so many other British films, the bad guys were French. I'm not sure how to judge their performances. The French accents were really dodgy at best and totally unbelievable, but this just added to all the fun. You know what? I must just watch this again, now.
    5jmariani-59799

    OK but nothing great.

    This movie tries hard but fails. It's more stupid than funny, but the cast is great. They deliver even if there wasn't much to work with. The movie is cute in places, nothing obnoxiously horrible, just fairly flat. OK for a watch if you've nothing better to do.

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    • Trivia
      Apart from a few establishing shots after the animated titles, the whole movie was filmed in France, including all of the English scenes of the first act.
    • Goofs
      When they all enter the sea wearing diving kit, the back packs are very slim, yet the bags seem to hold a substantial amount of clothing.
    • Quotes

      Kate: I think that liking them is much more important than loving them, actually. Love is easy to fall into. Liking is much harder. Think of your wedding as a driving test. You take it, you pass, and then you really start to learn how to drive. Or you crash.

    • Alternate versions
      The UK release was cut, the distributor chose to remove strong language (in this case 'motherf***er') in order to obtain a 12A classification. An uncut 15 classification was available.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Wright Stuff: Episode #19.79 (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Whatever You Want
      Performed by Status Quo

      Composed by Andy Brown and Richard Parfitt

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    • Release date
      • May 23, 2014 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Official site
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    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Як украсти діамант
    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France
    • Production companies
      • Process Media
      • Love Punch
      • Radar Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $266,588
    • Gross worldwide
      • $8,366,493
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 34m(94 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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