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directed by: David Hugh Jones starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer, Maurice Denham  List Price: $19.98 Price: $10.99 You Save: $8.99 (45%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302424737 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6302424739 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: October 10, 1995 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: February 13, 1987 Sales Rank: 12303 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Discount Shopping essential video: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - From My world I send these thoughts...Movies like this are so remarkable. For one thing they aren't violent, there isn't danger, things don't blow up, you aren't chased, no ones getting murdered. I really myself won't go to that again in this life. Sorry. Over it... They might not even be beautiful physically to watch in the unfolding of the story line, another wonderful feature, altho here they are. It's a deceptively real kind of story that feels like a life you might want to look into, vicariously try. Perhaps ... Read More Rating: - 84 Charing Cross RoadThis was one of my favorite films. It was very nostalgic for booklovers and fans of Anthony Hopkins. He won't disappoint you. Rating:  - Two great actors.The movie is charming and recalls a long-past time. Because it seemed so realistic, my disbelief would not stay suspended and I wondered if it depicted to any extent the way people interacted in those days (World War II). Also, Ann Bancroft was supposed to look much younger in the beginning of the film to show the length of time the relationship went on, and that didn't work at all. Techniques have come far since this film was made. All in all, I consider it a good addition to my dvd library. Rating: - NO SEX, NO VIOLENCE YET STILL COMPELLING & DRAMATICThis is a deeply touching movie about a long-term frienship between booklovers stunningly enacted by the gifted Anne Bancroft and the amazingly young and handsome Anthony Hopkins. Anne Bancroft can really make an audience appreciate the writer's craft and how beautiful and spiritual poetic words are to her or him. There is not one sex scene; not one scene involving nudity. There are no scenes of violence, intentional or arbitrary. It's a booklover's Platonic dream and romance. ... Read More Rating: - 84 Charing the Best84 Charing Cross Road is a wonderful movie. Set in time when people actually wrote letters and developed relationships, with out "hooking up"! Delightful to see the characters younger than now, but yet very talented. Worth watching many times... - Donna Browse for similar items by category:
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