Brief Encounter

Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film

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.

Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

'Lean's sad, buttoned-up account of unconsummated love is about all of us and our cautious natures' - Zadie Smith, Daily Telegraph

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