
84 Charing Cross Road
1987, Drama, 1h 37m
15 Reviews 5,000+ RatingsYou might also like
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Helene Hanff
Frank P. Doel
Nora Doel
Maxine Stuart
George Martin
Cecily Farr
Critic Reviews for 84 Charing Cross Road
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (2)
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The film has nothing to do with easy nostalgia; it's about real, credible people, and as such finally becomes very moving.
January 26, 2006 | Full Review… -
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.
May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review… -
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.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
"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.
August 30, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… -
This wonderful little gem is something of a critic-proof cult item in my house.
February 10, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
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August 4, 2005 | Rating: 5/5
Audience Reviews for 84 Charing Cross Road
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Sep 11, 2010If 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.Bill C Super Reviewer
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Jun 21, 2010ann bancroft is a american wanting rare british books, anthony hopkins is at a bookstore in london, sending her rare books, they spark up a friendship via letters back and fourth as she builds up a collection of books from him, both are charming, story engageing, and a story all about the what ifs in this world, a gentle sunday afternoon film working wellscott g Super Reviewer
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May 12, 2008A 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.David S Super Reviewer
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Dec 17, 2007lovely intelligent film with two outstanding performances.jay n Super Reviewer
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