Celia Johnson
Laura Jesson
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Brief Encounter. After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances (Johnson was nominated for an Oscar ...
Brief Encounter is a classic romantic drama set in 1945 during WWII in and around the fictional Milford railway station. A married woman, with children, Laura (Celia Johnson), meets a stranger, a doctor (Trevor Howard) named Alec in the station's waiting/tea room, who kindly removes a piece of grit from her eye then leaves to catch his train.
Brief Encounter. List. Prime Video Max. Watch Brief Encounter with a subscription on Max, rent on Prime Video, or buy on Prime Video. Brief Encounter adds a small but valuable gem to the Lean...
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Ann Firbank. Melanie Harvey. Rated: 4.5/5 • Nov 7, 2008. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. When doctor Alec Harvey (Richard Burton) helps Anna Jesson (Sophia Loren) get something out...
Play Trailer. A story of the most precious moments in a woman's life! Overview. Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey.
Brief Encounter (1945) This is the story, told in the first-person, of Laura Jesson, a country housewife. Bored with the security of her husband and family, Laura goes into town once a week for shopping and a matinee picture.
86 minutes. Ranked in The Greatest Films of All Time poll. = 211. 2022 critics' poll. Who voted for Brief Encounter. Turbulent passion and middle-class restraint combine in uniquely English style when a married woman falls for a doctor she meets at a railway station.
