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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HOPKINS,ANTHONY
EAN: 9780767881487
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767881486
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 6703
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1986
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
An American writer forms an enduring relationship with a London bookseller which is carried on over 20 years and across two continents.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 23-SEP-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) and Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) are lifelong friends who never meet in this unique comedy-drama based on a true story. Hanff and Doel are separated by 3,000 miles of ocean and joined by a passion for old books. Their relationship begins when New Yorker Hanff orders a copy ('unabridged, please!') of Pepys's diary. Doel, as polite and soft-spoken as Hanff is loud and overbearing, fields the request from his book shop in London. For the next two decades they correspond without ever actually sitting down for tea and crumpets. Brit director David Jones (Betrayal) does a reasonably good job of goosing a movie about something as uncinematic as letter writing, and the stars have fun chewing scenery on both sides of the Atlantic. The model for this kind of bittersweet relationship is David Lean's Brief Encounter, which, not coincidentally, is glimpsed here when Hanff steps out for a rainy-day matinee. --Glenn Lovell
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - 84 Charing the Best
84 Charing Cross Road is a wonderful movie. Set in time when people actually wrote letters and developed relationships, with out "hooking up"! Delightful to see the characters younger than now, but yet very talented. Worth watching many times... - Donna
Rating: - A Memorable Classic
We begin with a true story that's compelling exactly as it is, let the screenplay tell it in the best way possible, and bring in some top-notch acting talent to bring it to life. This is the result, a film that you will love, remember long after it's over, and be thrilled that you own on DVD so you can watch it again and again. And you will. Get it!
Rating: - About People
This is a charming account of a long distance relationship built up over a number of years generated by a love of books. I love books and movies about people who are 4 dimensional, not just characters. The actors are also favorites of mine. Anne Bancroft, Sir Anthony Hopkins, and Dame Judi Dench as well as the supporting cast make the characters very real and the viewer cares about them. I wonder how many of us when we're involved in conducting some kind of business through the mail, over the ... Read More
Rating: - A charming story to warm the cockles of any bibliophile's or Anglophile's heart!
I had never heard of Helene Hanff until about two years ago when I chanced upon this little gem of a movie that has stayed with me ever since. I have watched this movie often since then, and find delight in it every single time. Also, I have read Helene Hanff's book of the same title, and it makes for a wonderful read indeed.
84 Charing Cross Road is a love story of sorts - of two people brought together [though they live on separate continents] by their love of books, it is also a love ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful acting, wonderful movie!
This is a great heart-warming film powered by two terrific actors. While this is a wonderful film regardless, if you are a book lover (as I am) this is even more of a treat. The basic story is about a New York woman who, irritated with the lack of quality books in her area, seeks out a bookseller in London to provide what she is looking for. While her personality and the personality of the bookseller are about as opposite as you can get, they become long distance friends.
Hopkins and Bancroft ... Read More
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