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| ACTORS: | Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | David Hugh Jones |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 13 February, 1987 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia Tri-Star |
| MPAA RATING: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396077621 |
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Customer Reviews of 84 Charing Cross Road
A booklover's delight A charming little picture about a woman booklover in NYC (Anne Bancroft) who develops a 20-year correspondence with the head of the bookshop in London at the address given in the movie's title (Anthony Hopkins). She is quirky, particular, and opinionated, but also thoughtful--she sends the shop workers food which is greatly appreciated because of the post-war shortages. The letters are the movie: Bancroft spends much of the time typing them and reading them aloud to us. Thus time and the story, meagre though it is, unfold. Bancroft and Hopkins never meet, but they obviously have developed strong feelings for each other. Finally, after 20 years Bancroft, who is now a writer, has saved enough money to come to London, but when she arrives Hopkins has died. A very low key, literate movie; one for booklovers everywhere.
A Small Gem
Based on the charming true-life book by Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road is an absolute heart-tugging gem of a movie, and I cannot believe I never came across this 1987 sleeper before this time. Anne Bancroft is magnificent as brash New Yorker Helene Hanff, a book lover extraordinaire who comes across a British emporium of rare books, and begins an extraordinary correspondence (via paper, this was BEFORE e-mail and how charming it is!) with Frank Doel, played fabulously by a young Anthony Hopkins.
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>Somehow, in their 20 years of correspondence about books, their growing and deep friendship never had its denoument: Neither one was ever able to visit the other. And yet they were extraordinarily close in their mutual love of books, as Hanff's prolific reading habits and exacting demands for unabridged material complimented Doel's understated British desire to help her all he could.
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>I found myself in tears more than once; there are so many subtleties to this movie, especially in the bravira performance by Bancroft. This may be her finest role, unheralded though it was.
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>Something wonderful for any book lover. Order it and enjoy!
Lost Opportunity--where's Pinter when he was needed
This is a nice movie if you are the bland sort and only superficially into literature; if you are expecting anything pithy or deep or profound or edgy to be said about literature, you will be disappointed. Even a bland, Republican, high school english teacher would get deeper than the dialogue allows Bancroft and Hopkins. Imagine the feast if Pinter had written the screenplay!! But if you thought Field of Dreams was authentic, sincere, and a walloping good movie, you will like this smarmy, sadly lame film.