84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road 1986

7.3/10

NETFLIX Rating : 3.5

IMDB Rating : 7.5

FD Smart Rating : 7.3

Synopsis : Feisty New York writer Helene mails a note to a small London bookshop, sparking a touching and humorous correspondence with reserved bookseller Frank.

Regions Available ( 2 ) :
Japan , Portugal

Directors:

David Hugh Jones

Actors:

Anthony Hopkins , Judi Dench , Jean De Baer

Creators:

Helene Hanff , James Roose-Evans , Hugh Whitemore

Languages:

English [Original] , Japanese , Korean

Subtitles:

Portuguese , Korean , Japanese , Simplified Chinese , English

Genres:

Biography, Drama, Romance

Release Date:

1986

Run Time:

1h39m

Maturity Rating:

Suitable for age 6 or older.

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.

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