84 Charing Cross Road

Genre : DVD ( DVD )
Release : 2002/05/21
Price : $8.99

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Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) and Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) are lifelong friends who never meet in this unique comedy-drama based on a true story. Hanff and Doel are separated by 3,000 miles of ocean and joined by a passion for old books. Their relationship begins when New Yorker Hanff orders a copy ("unabridged, please!") of Pepys's diary. Doel, as polite and soft-spoken as Hanff is loud and overbearing, fields the request from his book shop in London. For the next two decades they correspond without ever actually sitting down for tea and crumpets. Brit director David Jones (Betrayal) does a reasonably good job of goosing a movie about something as uncinematic as letter writing, and the stars have fun chewing scenery on both sides of the Atlantic. The model for this kind of bittersweet relationship is David Lean's Brief Encounter, which, not coincidentally, is glimpsed here when Hanff steps out for a rainy-day matinee. --Glenn Lovell

I enjoyed the movie very much, the character of Helene Hanff as a natural unpretentious book lover was beautifully portayed by Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins was the epitomy of a reserved English gentleman. Brilliant. This was a quality movie indeed.

Love comes in many wrappers. This is a different love story of two people who live in different countries. They have a main interest in books. Both bright. She is funny and he is dependable. You must see this dvd. My heart laughed and cried. Have a box of tissues...you will need them.

i saw this movie on tv and bought it as a gift for my niece for christmas. i do not know the results.

Good addition to my collection of Hopkins Movies. But wasn't the best movie he's ever done.

If you like Anthony Hopkins, this will be a movie to add to your collection. A touching story of how people interact and enrich other lives without ever meeting one another. It is also a reminder not to put things off to "some other day"...live life now...fully, completely.