84 Charing Cross Road (1986)
Country: GB
Technical: col 97m
Director: David Jones
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham
Synopsis:
The story of Helene Hanff, a New York writer, and Frank Doel, the second-hand bookshop owner in London with whom she conducts a business correspondence for nearly twenty years without ever actually meeting him. There exists nonetheless a kind of love between them.
Review:
Exquisitely sentimental and fascinatingly detailed tale of a shared literary passion which longed to be much more if fate had not ordained otherwise. Acting honours go to all concerned, and the period production is first-rate.
Country: GB
Technical: col 97m
Director: David Jones
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham
Synopsis:
The story of Helene Hanff, a New York writer, and Frank Doel, the second-hand bookshop owner in London with whom she conducts a business correspondence for nearly twenty years without ever actually meeting him. There exists nonetheless a kind of love between them.
Review:
Exquisitely sentimental and fascinatingly detailed tale of a shared literary passion which longed to be much more if fate had not ordained otherwise. Acting honours go to all concerned, and the period production is first-rate.
Country: GB
Technical: col 97m
Director: David Jones
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham
Synopsis:
The story of Helene Hanff, a New York writer, and Frank Doel, the second-hand bookshop owner in London with whom she conducts a business correspondence for nearly twenty years without ever actually meeting him. There exists nonetheless a kind of love between them.
Review:
Exquisitely sentimental and fascinatingly detailed tale of a shared literary passion which longed to be much more if fate had not ordained otherwise. Acting honours go to all concerned, and the period production is first-rate.