Fresh
The film has nothing to do with easy nostalgia; it's about real, credible people, and as such finally becomes very moving.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
84 Charing Cross Road
A big love affair that began in a little bookstore at 84 Charing Cross Road.
1987 · 1h 40m · PG
Drama, Romance
Directed by
David Hugh Jones
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- David Hugh Jones Director
- 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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The result of this high-powered collaboration is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
84 Charing Cross Road is a movie made for people who love London and books. The only problem is that the heroine doesn't get to London until it's too late, and nobody ever seems to read in this movie.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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