Brief Encounter

TV Movie
1974
PG
1h 43m

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Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

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3/10

Brief Encounter

Lew Grade strikes again as he brings star power together for this television remake of David Lean's classic.

This modern updating has Dr Alec Harvey (Richard Burton) meeting housewife Anna Jesson (Sophia Loren) after she gets some grit in her eye.

Both are trapped in mundane marriages, just pottering along. Harvey and Jesson find a spark, maybe destined to be soulmates.

As Anna works part time at a Citizens Advice Bureau. They start to regularly meet then both go in opposite directions on the train.

Is their growing relationship enough for both of them to walk out on their respective families.

Loren is too glamorous to be an ordinary housewife. Burton at least relishes a chance to be gentle and romantic.

The movie does not work, it is too flat and dull. I think the Lean version was of its time and works in that respect.

Prismark10
Sep 12, 2024
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Trivia
Richard Burton was an 11th hour casting choice replacing Robert Shaw who dropped out

Goofs
The film is set at the train station in Winchester. However, when Anna jumps off the train to meet Alec, there's a sign briefly visible saying "BROCKENHURST," a different station.