Movie
84 Charing Cross Road
Overview
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
Details
- Release date
- 1987-02-13
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Brooksfilms, Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Anne Bancroft as Helene Hanff
- Anthony Hopkins as Frank P. Doel
- Judi Dench as Nora Doel
- Jean De Baer as Maxine Stuart
- Maurice Denham as George Martin
- Eleanor David as Cecily Farr
- Mercedes Ruehl as Kay
- Daniel Gerroll as Brian
- Wendy Morgan as Megan Wells
- Ian McNeice as Bill Humphries
- Connie Booth as The Lady from Delaware
- J. Smith-Cameron as Ginny
Crew
- David Hugh Jones - Director
- Hugh Whitemore - Screenplay
- James Roose-Evans - Screenplay
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