84 Charing Cross Road

About 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.

David Hugh Jones's 84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 romance film. Its themes are based on memoir or autobiography, bookshop, correspondence, and based on play or musical.

Anne Bancroft appears as Helene Hanff, Anthony Hopkins as Frank P. Doel, Judi Dench as Nora Doel, and Jean De Baer as Maxine Stuart. Released in February 1987, it runs 100 minutes.

The screenplay is by Hugh Whitemore and James Roose-Evans. Produced by Brooksfilms. The story is adapted from a stage production. In the United States it streams on Howdy Amazon Channel.

Born on the Fourth of July, Driving Miss Daisy, and The Deep Blue Sea make useful companions to 84 Charing Cross Road, all filed under 1950s and 1960s. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 233 votes and it carries a PG rating.