84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
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Cast
as Frank Doel
as Helene Hanff
as Nora Doel
as Maxine Bellamy
as Martin
as Cecily Farr
as Kay
as Brian
as Megan Wells
as Bill Humphries
as Ginny
as Ed
as Mrs. Boulton
as Lady From Delaware
as Businessman on Plane
as New York Bookseller
as Print Buyer
as Willie, Deli Owner
as Maxine's Stage Manager
as Bill's Great Aunt
as Stately Home Butler
as Labour Party Canvasser
as Maxine's Mom
as Joey the Dentist
as Coronation Party Friend
as Coronation Party Friend
as Coronation Party Friend
as Coronation Party Friend
as Baseball Commentator
as Demolition Workman
as Cop at Columbia
as Joan Todd
as Mary Doel at Age 4
as Mary Doel At Age 21
as Sheila Doel at Age 12
as Sheila Doel at Age 29
as Cecily Farr's Child
as Cecily Farr's Child
Critic Reviews for 84 Charing Cross Road
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
The film has nothing to do with easy nostalgia; it's about real, credible people, and as such finally becomes very moving.
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.
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.
"84 Charing Cross Road" is a valuable film for all of the right reasons of theatrical balance and narrative truth. It is a movie that hits you like a live play.
This wonderful little gem is something of a critic-proof cult item in my house.
A staid, static movie that wins us over with its outstanding performances and its love of books.
Audience Reviews for 84 Charing Cross Road
If you are really into reading and posting reviews on this site you are probably the kind of person who would like this movie. Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft carry on a long term relationship based entirely using there opinions and reviews of books. Even with this limitation it is still some of the best character development set to screen. Bancroft makes the opening play by sending a letter to Hopkins asking him to sell her good cheap books. Hopkins plays a reserved well educated clerk in a second hand book store in postwar London. Bancroft plays outspoken and fairly brash aspiring writer in New York. Hopkins makes selections and Bancroft keeps ordering more books and comments on his selection. The relationship slowly evolves over twenty years leaving there friendship more important than the book crossing the Atlantic.
Super Reviewer
A nice Sunday afternoon film. Nice to see Hopkins in something before he became a big star (when he still tried to act!). No-one does repressed Englishman better than him and this character ranks with his Remains of the Day, Shadowlands, Howards End and Elephant Man characters. Bancroft is great too. It's really a film of two halves. If they ever remake it they they use two directors; one to shoot the London section and the other to shoot the NY section. Would be an interesting experiment.
Super Reviewer
lovely intelligent film with two outstanding performances.
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