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84 Charing Cross Road

1987 · 100 min

A gentle, bittersweet unfolding of letters across an ocean, quietly moving and steeped in affection for books and distant friendship.

Tagline: A big love affair that began in a little bookstore at 84 Charing Cross Road.
Overview: When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
love
isolation
memory
aging
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	9
Romance	4
Tension	1
Darkness	2
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, romance
Directed by: David Hugh Jones
Written by: James Roose-Evans, Hugh Whitemore
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer, Maurice Denham, Eleanor David, Mercedes Ruehl, Daniel Gerroll
Music: George Fenton
Cinematography: Brian West
Runtime: 100 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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