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Article: JUST THE FILM FOR BIBLIOPHILES ANNE BANCROFT CHARMS AS A WOMAN BONKERS FOR BOOKS

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May 1, 1987
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"84 CHARING CROSS ROAD" -- Directed by David Jones,

screenplay by Hugh Whitemore based on the book by Helene

Hanff as originally adapted for the stage by James Roose

-Evans. Starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi

Dench, Jean De Baer, Maurice Denham, Eleanor David,

Mercedes Ruehl, Wendy Morgan, Ian McNiece. At the

Nickelodeon, rated PG. Charing Cross Road," starring Anne Bancroft as a woman who's bonkers for books and Anthony Hopkins as her favorite bookseller, isn't a movie at all, just as it wasn't a play when it was on Broadway. Yet this quixotic attempt to flesh out Helene Hanff's charming memoir and turn it into images is so obviously a ...

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