Spoiler Alert!! It never ceases to amaze me sometimes how and why some films get nominated for awards and how some actually win them.
In my humble opinion this film is the best I have had the pleasure of seeing in many a year and how it was not nominated for Academy Awards beggars belief. The Best Actress Award for 1986/7 should have undoubtedly gone to Anne Bancroft for her portrayal of Helene Hanff and Best Supporting Actor to Anthony Hopkins as Frank Doel. Not forgetting David Hugh Jones, Hugh Whitemore and Brian West for Direction, Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography respectively. (I could smell the mustiness of the old bookshop)
84 Charing Cross road was EVERYTHING a film should be, funny sad, riveting and perfectly acted. Not a single sign of sex, nudity, expletives or needless violence. How very, very refreshing.
I never wanted this film to end and when Helene finally got the chance to visit England and her 'Little Bookshop' It was oh so sad knowing that she was too late to meet Paul. The man she so obviously fell in love with.
How I wish I could write prose like Helene Hanff.
In my humble opinion this film is the best I have had the pleasure of seeing in many a year and how it was not nominated for Academy Awards beggars belief. The Best Actress Award for 1986/7 should have undoubtedly gone to Anne Bancroft for her portrayal of Helene Hanff and Best Supporting Actor to Anthony Hopkins as Frank Doel. Not forgetting David Hugh Jones, Hugh Whitemore and Brian West for Direction, Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography respectively. (I could smell the mustiness of the old bookshop)
84 Charing Cross road was EVERYTHING a film should be, funny sad, riveting and perfectly acted. Not a single sign of sex, nudity, expletives or needless violence. How very, very refreshing.
I never wanted this film to end and when Helene finally got the chance to visit England and her 'Little Bookshop' It was oh so sad knowing that she was too late to meet Paul. The man she so obviously fell in love with.
How I wish I could write prose like Helene Hanff.