Look for Connie Booth of "Fawlty Towers" fame in a small role as the woman from Delaware who visits the bookstore!
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, and Anne Bancroft, "84 Charing Cross Road" is a sleeper of movie that won a BAFTA for Anne Bancroft as Best Actress and a BAFTA nomination for Judi
Dench for Best Supporting Actress as well as a BAFTA nomination for best screen play. "84 Charing Cross Road" is a love story between single, intellectual United States writer and early
screen writer Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft), an American writer, early televison writer, and Frank Doel (played by Anthony Hopkins) a married, London bookseller. The move takes place over
twenty years from the 1950s until the early 1970s. I loved this movie so much I recorded it off of the AMC television station and sent it to my mother-in-law because I knew she would love
it. This movie is a definite must-see, feel-good movie . . . .
. . . The movie “84 Charing Cross Road” is a charming, feel-good movie about a mail love affair between two people who have never met but through an extended exchange of letters learn to like, respect, and love each other, or at least the idea of each other. The literary roman begins when Helene Hanff is unable to find books of British literature in New York without going to Brentano’s bookstore where “everything was too fancy” and expensive. One day she reads an ad in the unfortunately now defunct “Saturday Review of Literature” and notices an ad for British books. The shop is located in London at 84 Charing Cross Road. She writes asking for them to solve some of her problems by locating inexpensive, clean copies of such books as those by John Henry Newman, William Hazlitt, and a copy of the Vulgate. The friendship begins and continues until the late 1960s. Read the rest of my Review Stream Review
