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84 Charing Cross Road [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; a Brooksfilms production ; a David Jones film ; screenplay by Hugh Whitemore ; produced by Geoffrey Helman ; directed by David Jones.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 07762 | ColumbiaLanguage: English Subtitle language: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai Publication details: Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2002.Description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0767881486
  • 9780767881487
Other title:
  • Eighty-four Charing Cross Road
Uniform titles:
  • 84 Charing Cross Road (Motion picture).
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Start -- Answering an ad -- Frank P. Doel -- Brian the Britisher -- Imaginary conversations Vol. 2 -- Doel home -- Meat rationing -- Christmas 1949 -- Food from Denmark -- Willie's deli -- Note from Cecily -- Helene's London fantasy -- Idea of the university -- Conga! -- Easter parcels -- Elizabethan love poems -- Maxine at Marks & Co. -- Ersatz Pepys -- Babysitter -- Gift of linen -- In hospital -- Nylons for Lent -- Trip canceled -- Evicted -- Modern library thing -- Alive & kicking -- All things must pass -- Finally made it.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Brian West ; editor, Chris Wimble ; music composed and conducted by George Fenton ; production design, Eileen Diss, Edward Pisoni ; costume design, Jane Greenwood, Lindy Hemming.
Awards:
  • Winner, 1988 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film award for Best Actress: Anne Bancroft.
Cast: Anne Bancroft (Helene Hanff), Anthony Hopkins (Frank Doel), Judi Dench (Nora Doel), Jean De Baer (Maxine Bellamy), Maurice Denham (George Martin), Eleanor David (Cecily Farr), Mercedes Ruehl (Kay), Daniel Gerroll (Brian), Wendy Morgan (Megan Wells), Ian McNeice (Bill Humphries), J. Smith-Cameron (Ginny), Tom Isbell (Ed).Summary: Helene Hanff is a New Yorker who loves books but cannot afford expensive ones. When she sees an ad in the Saturday Review for a London bookstore, she sends them her want list and is soon delighted to receive a package of used books - good readable editions, cheap. She begins a correspondence with the bookseller, Frank Doel. Built on a basis of mutually held taste, knowledge, interests and consideration, the bond between the lonely New Yorker and the reserved Londoner lasts for years without the two people ever meeting each other. Based on a true story and the long running play.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA 84 Chari Available 33111008289635
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this 1986 film. The scene is New York, 1949: Anne Bancroft plays a struggling writer and passionate bibliophile, who answers an advertisement from a rare-volumes bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road in London. Thus begins a two-decade romance by correspondence between Bancroft and Briton Anthony Hopkins, the man in charge of the overseas department of Marks and Company. Though several meetings are arranged, Bancroft and Hopkins never come face to face thanks to mitigating circumstances. But Anne finally makes it to London, and finds that much has changed. 84 Charing Cross Road was produced by Mel Brooks, the husband of star Anne Bancroft. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Based on the book by Helene Hanff; originally adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans.

Originally produced as an international motion picture in 1986.

Special features: Trailers (5 min.).

Start -- Answering an ad -- Frank P. Doel -- Brian the Britisher -- Imaginary conversations Vol. 2 -- Doel home -- Meat rationing -- Christmas 1949 -- Food from Denmark -- Willie's deli -- Note from Cecily -- Helene's London fantasy -- Idea of the university -- Conga! -- Easter parcels -- Elizabethan love poems -- Maxine at Marks & Co. -- Ersatz Pepys -- Babysitter -- Gift of linen -- In hospital -- Nylons for Lent -- Trip canceled -- Evicted -- Modern library thing -- Alive & kicking -- All things must pass -- Finally made it.

Director of photography, Brian West ; editor, Chris Wimble ; music composed and conducted by George Fenton ; production design, Eileen Diss, Edward Pisoni ; costume design, Jane Greenwood, Lindy Hemming.

Anne Bancroft (Helene Hanff), Anthony Hopkins (Frank Doel), Judi Dench (Nora Doel), Jean De Baer (Maxine Bellamy), Maurice Denham (George Martin), Eleanor David (Cecily Farr), Mercedes Ruehl (Kay), Daniel Gerroll (Brian), Wendy Morgan (Megan Wells), Ian McNeice (Bill Humphries), J. Smith-Cameron (Ginny), Tom Isbell (Ed).

Helene Hanff is a New Yorker who loves books but cannot afford expensive ones. When she sees an ad in the Saturday Review for a London bookstore, she sends them her want list and is soon delighted to receive a package of used books - good readable editions, cheap. She begins a correspondence with the bookseller, Frank Doel. Built on a basis of mutually held taste, knowledge, interests and consideration, the bond between the lonely New Yorker and the reserved Londoner lasts for years without the two people ever meeting each other. Based on a true story and the long running play.

MPAA rating: Rated PG.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital sound; full screen presentation.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai; closed-captioned.

Winner, 1988 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Film award for Best Actress: Anne Bancroft.

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