84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

  • 86% of critics liked it
    (14 reviews)

  • 76% of users liked it
    (4,940 ratings)

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… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Helene Hanff, James Roose-Evans, Hugh Whitemore
Genres
Drama, Romance
In Theaters
Feb 13, 1987 Limited
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    The film has nothing to do with easy nostalgia; it's about real, credible people, and as such finally becomes very moving.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    The result of this high-powered collaboration is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    84 Charing Cross Road is a movie made for people who love London and books. The only problem is that the heroine doesn't get to London until it's too late, and nobody ever seems to read in this movie.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    This wonderful little gem is something of a critic-proof cult item in my house.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner

    A staid, static movie that wins us over with its outstanding performances and its love of books.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • jay n


    lovely intelligent film with two outstanding performances.

  • Bill C


    If you are really into reading and posting reviews on this site you are probably the kind of person who would like this movie. Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft carry on a long term relationship based entirely using there opinions and reviews of books. Even with this limitation it is… More

  • David S


    A nice Sunday afternoon film. Nice to see Hopkins in something before he became a big star (when he still tried to act!). No-one does repressed Englishman better than him and this character ranks with his Remains of the Day, Shadowlands, Howards End and Elephant Man characters.… More

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