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Aug 28, 1983 · Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson: Directed by Alvin Rakoff. With Laurence Olivier, Jackie Gleason. At the funeral of Mr. Halpern's wife he meets Mr. Johnson who confides in him that he fell in love with Mrs. Halpern even before she met her husband and has been seeing her regularly during all the years of her marriage.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Alvin Rakoff
- 1983-08-28
The film is a two-person drama featuring Olivier as Mr. Joseph Halpern, an elderly working class British Jewish widower and Gleason as Mr. Ernest Johnson, a dapper American retired accountant.
- Comedy Drama
Feb 6, 2022 · 1983 HBO two-hander drama featuring Laurence Olivier as Mr. Halpern, an elderly working class British Jewish widower and Jackie Gleason as Mr. Johnson, a dapper American retired accountant....
- 61 min
- 246
- jmagda41
Jul 9, 2023 · A made for T. V. movie from the pen of Lionel Goldstein, 'Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson' is a strongly written and powerfully acted two-hander exploring an intriguing central conceit in an understated way.
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Joe Halpern is an English, retired, working-class Jew whose wife passes away. At her funeral, he encounters a strange, wealthy American by the name of Ernest Johnson, who asks Halpern to meet him for drinks. Six weeks later, the two men have a rendezvous, and get to know one another.
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Overview. Towards the end of their lives, two old friends discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years.
