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Format:
Video disc
Title:
84 Charing Cross Road
Other title(s):
Eighty-four Charing Cross Road
Uniform Title:
84 Charing Cross Road (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9780767881487
Publication Information:
Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, ©2002.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
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.).
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.
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.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Rated PG.
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