84 charing cross road

Director: david hugh jones

Actor: anne bancroft,anthony hopkins,judi dench,jean de baer

Data Published: Fri Feb 13 1987

Genres: Biography,Drama,Romance

Key Words: epistolary,bookstore,correspondence,book,friendship

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090570/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/84_Charing_Cross_Road_(film)

Description: 84 Charing Cross Road is a movie starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, and Judi Dench. True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Plot: In 1949, Helene Hanff is in search of obscure classics and British literature titles that she has been unable to find in New York City. She notices an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature placed by antiquarian booksellers Marks & Co, located at the titular address in London. She contacts the shop, where chief buyer and manager Frank Doel fulfills her requests. A long-distance friendship develops over time between the two and between Hanff and other staff members, as well, including birthday gifts, holiday packages and food parcels to compensate for post–World War II food shortages in Britain. Their correspondence includes discussions about topics as diverse as the sermons of John Donne, how to make Yorkshire pudding, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the coronation of Elizabeth II. Hanff postpones visiting her English friends until too late: Doel dies in December 1968 and the bookshop eventually closes. She finally visits Charing Cross Road and the vacant shop in the summer of 1971.