A Majority of One (1961)

Directed by

Mervyn LeRoy

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy drama, romantic comedy, melodrama

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 36m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed Jewish woman from Brooklyn travels to Japan with her daughter and son-in-law. There she meets a Japanese widower, and they form an unlikely friendship that challenges their cultural differences and past prejudices.

lightheartedgentlewarmplayfulsentimentalslow-pacedwhimsicalold-fashioned

What happens

A Majority of One is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Rosalind Russell and Alec Guinness. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Leonard Spigelgass, which was a Broadway hit in the 1959–1960 season starring Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke. The title originates from a quote from Henry David Thoreau: "Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already." Thoreau believed that the one person who is on the right side of the question counts for more than do all of the people who are on the wrong side. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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