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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. Starring Celia Johnson , Trevor Howard , Stanley Holloway , and Joyce Carey , the film follows a passionate extramarital relationship in England shortly before World War II.
Brief Encounter: Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
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- Drama, Romance
- David Lean
- 1946-08-24
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. At a café on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Although they are both already married, they gradually fall in love with each other.
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor...
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- Celia Johnson
- David Lean
- Romance, Drama
Mar 29, 2010 · With "Brief Encounter," David Lean (who earned his first Oscar nomination for this picture) shows his growing directorial gifts on route to his epic mastery of the movies and bravely deals with love that is frowned upon.
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about British suburban life, centering on Laura, a married woman with children whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a stranger, Alec.
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Brief Encounter, British film drama, released in 1945, that pivots on the subject of forbidden love, as set against the strictures of suburban British life. The film, based on Noël Coward’s play Still Life, was one of director David Lean’s first great successes.
