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Brief Encounter

OCOpen Caption screening
Additional program content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly. Details HERE
Showtimes updated on Tuesday evenings

Brief Encounter

80th Anniversary Screening

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. During their weekly visits, their casual friendship develops 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.

"David Lean's wondrous romance, adapted from Noel Coward's story, is one of the most emotionally devastating movies of all time."
Tom Huddleston, Time Out

This film is part of the following initiatives:

This film is part of the Love Me Tender: Big Screen Romances series.



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