Last Christmas (film)

Directed by:	Paul Feig
Written by:	George Michael (inspired by the song, written and composed by) Emma Thompson (story/screenplay) Greg Wise (story) Bryony Kimmings (screenplay)
Release date:	November 8, 2019
Running time:	1 hour, 42 minutes
Rating:	12a (UK) PG-13 (U.S. [Language; Sexual Content])
Available on:	Apple TV Google Play Amazon Video DVD Blu-ray HBO Max (coming July 11)

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“	It's a wonderful life	”
— Tagline

Last Christmas is an British Christmas rom-com movie, from Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids, and writer Emma Thompson, that is released in theaters on November 8, 2019. It is inspired by the Christmas song of the same name, written and composed by George Michael. It was originally scheduled to be released on November 15, 2019, but pushed forward a week early to the new scheduled date to compete with Roland Emmerich's WW2 drama Midway and Stephen King's Doctor Sleep. It is presented by Universal Pictures International, with Perfect World Pictures and Dentsu, and co-produced by Calamity Films and Feigco Entertainment, developed with the BFI and BBC Films.

Synopsis

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In 1999 Yugoslavia, the Andrich family is having a Christmas service where little Katarina is singing in the choir. Her parents Petra and Ivan, plus Katarina's older sister Maria watch and admire her singing, while Marta is admiring one of the other choir girls.

We flash forward to 2017 London, whern Katarina now goes by Kate. She has become distant from her family, but especially Petra and Marta. She hooks up with a guy at a bar and sleeps at his place. When she uses his shower in the morning, she is greeted by the man's wife, who kicks Kate out onto the street and leaving her to lament about why her life is bad.

Kate works at a Christmas shop as an elf, working for a woman who goes by "Santa", who sees potential in Kate but is annoyed at her constant screw-ups. While at work, Marta visits Kate and forces her to step outside and talk to their mom, even though Kate doesn't want to. Later on, Kate meets a man named Tom Webster. Kate finds him charming, if not a bit odd. Their moment is then ruined by a bird pooping on Kate's face.

Outside of work, Kate tries to crash with her friend Jenna and her husband Rufus, the latter not being too fond of Kate after she accidentally burned his model ship. Kate tries to make an audition for a theater production, but she arrives late and is forced to sing a-capella, and the judges dismiss her.

At the shop, a Danish man enters. He and Santa appear to share a connection, which Kate notices. She later leaves work after accepting an invite to go out with Tom. They go out on the town, which proves to be fun for Kate. She learns that Tom volunteers at a homeless shelter in his spare time. The night ends with them entering an ice skating rink. They have a good time until a security guard kicks them out.

In the morning, Kate goes to the shop to find that it was broken into. Kate realizes she forgot to properly lock up before going out with Tom. Santa already knew this and says she broke a window to make it look like a break-in just for the insurance. She scolds Kate and says she is going to give her another chance even though she shouldn't. To make matters more complicated, Jenna and Rufus kick Kate out after one too many screw-ups.

On another outing with Tom, the two end up going back to his place. Kate tells him about an illness she had in which she required a heart transplant and it made her feel bad about herself, in that she was "half-dead" due to needing help. Kate then asks Tom to kiss her goodnight, which he does. However, when she tries to see him again, Tom tells her that she cannot keep being dependent on him, which just makes her upset.

Kate joins her family for dinner. Marta makes things tense by suggesting that Kate always acts helpless after the illness, while Kate outs Marta by saying that she has a girlfriend named Alba. Petra and Ivan are also called out for, respectively, being smothering and also barely being home since Ivan works as a cab driver, but Kate thinks he takes the hours that he does to get away from his family.

Kate goes to the homeless shelter to look for Tom. One of the men working there doesn't appear to know who Kate is talking about. She ends up getting roped into volunteering and helping out, and later even sets up a bucket outside while dressed as an elf to sing Christmas carols.

Kate starts to try and do right by other people, starting with her family. She apologizes to Marta and finally meets Alba, albeit under tense circumstances. Marta forgives her sister. Later on the bus, Kate sees a Yugoslavian couple get harassed by a racist guy. Kate sits by them and speaks to them in their native tongue, telling them that they are welcome there, and she introduces herself as Katarina. She even does better at work and bonds with Santa, who tells her that she only uses that nickname for whatever job she has, as nobody else is going to know how to pronounce her name. Additionally, she tells Kate that she is seeing the Danish man, but since she can't pronounce his name either, she simply refers to him as "Boy".

Kate later goes by Tom's apartment to visit him. She meets a Realtor who is putting the place up on the market. Kate thinks Tom is selling the place, but the Realtor informs her that the previous owner has been dead for months. He mentions that his name was "Webster," and that he passed away a year ago. We see a flashback in which Tom rode his bike through the streets and was hit by a truck. As he was a donor, his heart was transplanted to Kate. In other words, LAST CHRISTMAS, Tom gave Kate his heart. Kate is devastated and sits by the bench that she frequented with Tom, which turns out to be a memorial for him. Tom's spirit visits Kate one last time to give her reassurance that she will be fine.

Sometime later, Kate has helped put on a Christmas show with the help of the patrons of the homeless shelter. She wears a festive dress as her family comes to see her, and they all perform "Last Christmas."

Songs

The original score is composed by Theodore Shapiro and conducted/orchestrated by Mark Graham. The feature includes the unreleased music of the late musician George Michael of Wham!

Last Christmas Album Available on Sony Music
Subject to update

Title(s)	Performed by
"Last Christmas"	Wham!
"Deck the Halls" "Last Christmas"	Emilia Clarke
"Freedom '90" "Faith" "This Is How (We Want You To Get High)"	George Michael

Cast

Subject to update

Actress(es)/actor(s)	Character(s)
Emilia Clarke	Kate
Emma Thompson	Adelia
Michelle Yeoh	Unknown
Henry Golding	Tom
Patti LuPone	Unknown
Lydia Leonard	Marta
Ingrid Oliver	Unknown
Rebecca Root	Dr. Addis
Sue Perkins	Frozen on Ice Director
Van Hu	Frozen on Ice Producer
David Mumeni	Guy
Davin Sitaram Rith Horrocks Rodrig Andrisan John Hartatone	Christmas Shoppers
Richard Curtis	Unknown
Jade Anouka	Alba
Joakim Skarli	Church guest
Ritu Arya	Jenna
Helena Holmes	Artist
Peter Mygind	Unknown
Fabien Frankel	Unknown
Nasir Jama	Unknown
Rene Costa	Geoff Mafia (Boss)
Laura Evelyn	Unknown
Mario Romano	Christmas Market Vendor
Joanna Zwierzynska	Pregnant Woman
Jassie Mortimer	Croatian Woman
Michael Matovski	Croatian Man
Liran Nathan Laila Alj	Moroccan Vendors
Karol Steele	Christmas Partygoer Concert singer
Joe Blakemore	Army Tom
David Cradduck	Partygoer Audience member
Nichola Mazur	Nurse
Mark Gooden	Store Shopper
Ansu Kabia	Rufus
Peter Stanford	Mr. Morgan (Homeless)
Rahji Shrinarine	Townsman
Adnan Kundi	Tourist
Daniel Maya	Audience member
Ranjit Shubh	Harvinder
Jake Lampert	Angry Man
Kelvin Hewlett (uncredited)	Passerby

Notes

• This is the second Christmas feature for director Paul Feig for almost 13 years since Unaccompanied Minors.

Gallery

Videos

Last Christmas - Official Trailer

Official U.S. Theatrical Trailer

Last Christmas Trailer Own it 1 21 on Digital, 2 4 on Blu-ray & DVD

U.S. Home Media Release Promo

Last Christmas All Film Clips Own it 1 21 on Digital, 2 4 on Blu-ray & DVD

All Film Clips

Last Christmas "You Love Me, You Love George Michael" Now on Digital, 2 4 on Blu-ray & DVD

10-Minute Extended Preview:
"You Love Me, You Love George Michael"

Last Christmas Exclusive Clip for Email Subscribers Bloopers

Excerpt from the Production Outtake Reel (Email Exclusive)

Last Christmas Bloopers + Bonus Clips Own it now Digital, 2 4 on Blu-ray & DVD

Outtakes & Bonus Clips

Clips

Last Christmas (2019) - Christmas Robbery Scene (1 10) Movieclips

"Christmas Robbery"

Last Christmas (2019) - Sneaking into the Ice Rink Scene (2 10) Movieclips

"Sneaking into the Ice Rink"

Last Christmas (2019) - Santa's Little Matchmaker Scene (3 10) Movieclips

"Santa's Little Matchmaker"

Last Christmas (2019) - Dysfunctional Family Dinner Scene (4 10) Movieclips

"Dysfunctional Family Dinner"

Last Christmas (2019) - They Took out My Heart Scene (5 10) Movieclips

"They Took Out My Heart"

Last Christmas (2019) - The Sweetest Lullaby Scene (6 10) Movieclips

"The Sweetest Lullaby"

Last Christmas (2019) - Singing for Charity Scene (7 10) Movieclips

"Singing for Charity"

Last Christmas (2019) - Concert Auditions Scene (8 10) Movieclips

"Concert Auditions"

Last Christmas (2019) - I Gave You My Heart Scene (9 10) Movieclips

"I Gave You My Heart"

Last Christmas (2019) - The Christmas Concert Scene (10 10) Movieclips

"The Christmas Concert"

External link

• Official Website
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• Last Christmas at the Internet Movie Database
• Last Christmas at Rotten Tomatoes