London settings include Buckingham Palace, Soho Square, Trafalgar Square, St James's, Westminster, Griffin Park in Brentford standing in for White Hart Lane in Tottenham and suburban Richmond. The film was shot on location in London and New York City.
She finally visits Charing Cross Road and the vacant shop in the summer of 1971. In January 1969, she receives word that Doel has died and the bookshop has closed. Hanff intends to visit London and meet her bookseller friends but for various reasons has to postpone her plans. Their correspondence includes discussions about topics as diverse as the sermons of John Donne, how to make Yorkshire pudding, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the coronation of Elizabeth II. In gratitude for their extraordinary service, Hanff begins sending small gifts: holiday packages and food parcels to compensate for post–war food shortages in Britain. Over time, a long-distance friendship develops between Hanff and Doel and also the other staff members even Doel's wife corresponds with Hanff. She contacts the shop, where chief buyer and manager Frank Doel fulfills her requests. To the sound of hammering and a builder's radio, Hanff recalls the first letter she wrote to the shop in 1949.Īs a flashback, at a bookstore in 1949 in New York City, Hanff seeks obscure British literary classics and notices an advertisement in the Saturday Review of Literature placed by antiquarian booksellers Marks & Co, located at the titular address in London. By the time she arrives in London, the book shop has permanently closed, but she still visits it. She is on a promotional tour for her book 84 Charing Cross Road which is about her 20-year correspondence with a secondhand bookshop specializing in out-of-print books. In 1971, New Yorker Helene Hanff is on an airplane heading for London. The film has become something of a cult classic among bibliophiles and epistophiles. Dench has said that 84 Charing Cross Road is one of her favourite films in which she has appeared. Additionally, Dench was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Whitemore for Best Adapted Screenplay. Bancroft won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Hanff. The film garnered mainly positive reviews from critics, as well as receiving numerous industry awards and nominations. Several characters who are not in the play were added for the film, including Hanff's Manhattan friends and Doel's wife Nora.
The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore is based on a play by James Roose-Evans, which itself is an adaptation of the 1970 epistolary memoir of the same name by Helene Hanff - a compilation of letters between Hanff and Frank Doel dating from 1949 to 1968.
It is produced by Bancroft's husband, Mel Brooks. 84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 British-American drama film directed by David Jones, and starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Mercedes Ruehl, and Jean De Baer.
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