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84 Charing Cross Road
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.
1987 · Directed by David Hugh Jones · 100 min · Drama · Romance · 13 frames
Tagline
A big love affair that began in a little bookstore at 84 Charing Cross Road.
Crew
- Screenplay: Hugh Whitemore, James Roose-Evans
- Cinematography: Brian West
- Edited by: Chris Wimble
- Music: George Fenton
- Produced by: Geoffrey Helman
Cast
- Anne Bancroft as Helene Hanff
- Anthony Hopkins as Frank P. Doel
- Judi Dench as Nora Doel
- Jean De Baer as Maxine Stuart
- Maurice Denham as George Martin
- Eleanor David as Cecily Farr
- Mercedes Ruehl as Kay
- Daniel Gerroll as Brian
- Wendy Morgan as Megan Wells
- Ian McNeice as Bill Humphries
Production
- Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: Brooksfilms, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Corporation
- Box office: $2,538,291
- Themes: london, england, bookshop, based on play or musical, based on memoir or autobiography, correspondence, 1950s, 1960s
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