84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road

1987 · 100 min · EN · PG · 7.1 (177 votes)
Dir. David Hugh Jones · Starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer, Maurice Denham, Eleanor David · Music George Fenton

A true story

DramaRomance

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.

VIBE

A warm, epistolary embrace across the Atlantic. It feels like settling into a favorite armchair with a cup of tea, savoring the quiet joy of shared passions and burgeoning friendships through the written word.

cozycharmingheartwarminggentlesteadyperiod dramaliteraryearnestfriendshiplove of bookslongingconnection
londonenglandbookshopbased on play or musicalbased on memoir or autobiographycorrespondence1950s1960s
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