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84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 British-American drama film directed by David Jones, and starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Mercedes Ruehl, and Jean De Baer. It is produced by Bancroft's husband, Mel Brooks.
Feb 13, 1987 · 84 Charing Cross Road: Directed by David Hugh Jones. With Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer. True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff. It is an epistolary memoir composed of letters from the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London.
Bancroft leads a lonely life in a New York apartment. Hopkins occupies a silent marriage in a London bedroom suburb. After many years, Hopkins dies and then Bancroft finally goes to London and visits the now-empty bookstore. Sigh.
Oct 1, 1990 · A heartwarming love story about people who love books for readers who love books. This funny, poignant, classic love story unfolds through a series of letters between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road.
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Feb 1, 2016 · 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) Friendship between an American writer living in NYC, US and antique bookshop employees in London, UK - the whole story flows like serene stream in spring...
Jan 1, 2001 · 84, Charing Cross Road. Helene Hanff. 4.16. 85,124 ratings13,683 reviews. This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London.
1h 37m. New York City bibliophile Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) writes to the London bookshop Marks & Co in search of some titles she has not been able to turn up locally. Store manager Frank Doel...
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Feisty New York writer Helene mails a note to a small London bookshop, sparking a touching and humorous correspondence with reserved bookseller Frank. Watch trailers & learn more.
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
