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Brief Encounter (1945)
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Co-adapted by Noël Coward from his own one-act play Still Life, this is one of the finest films ever made in Britain. What makes the illicit love between doctor Trevor Howard and housewife Celia Johnson so memorable is their sheer ordinariness — they really could be anybody sitting in the dark of the cinema or in the comfort of their armchair. That's why Falling in Love, the unofficial Hollywood remake, fell so flat — Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep simply weren't ordinary enough. Romancing to the strains of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, the leads are outstanding, but credit should also go to the forgotten Cyril Raymond, whose decent dullness as Johnson's husband makes those stolen Thursdays seem so special. DP
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Running time
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82min
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Country of origin
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UK
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Genre
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Classic Romantic Drama
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Noël Coward, David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame, from the play Still Life by Noël Coward
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Theatrical distributor
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Park Circus
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UK cinema certificate
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A
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UK cinema release date
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August 2007
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