84 Charing Cross Road
1987 · 100 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 11,741 VOTES · DIR. David Hugh Jones
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,038 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:50 . Your first trip to London? . Yes.
00:06:20 Dear Madam:
00:10:27 Helene Hanff.
00:13:49 Not forgetting Leigh Hunt.
00:17:31 Mulligatawny soup. They'd like that.
00:20:42 I want four slices of pepper salami, four slices of Swiss cheese...
00:24:06 ."If you're curious about Frank..." . Which you are.
00:26:59 If he gets ulcers, I did it.
00:30:14 Well!
00:33:22 . I can't. . That's nonsense.
00:37:15 Michael! Anne!
00:41:19 L"ve never owned a book with pages edged in gold.
00:44:37 ...from Pepys" Diary.
00:49:17 You go to so much trouble for me and I never even thank you.
00:53:45 ...you want the name and address of the old lady...
00:57:24 There's a P.S.
01:01:36 We"re all thrilled that you"ll be coming to London.
01:06:03 ...to provide them with something to eat. It was delicious.
01:11:07 They decided the time had come for me to get a real apartment with real furniture.
01:14:30 "And every chapter must be so translated.
01:18:18 I hated it.
01:21:31 Best to Nora and anybody else around.
01:26:32 Nothing about it at all offends me.
01:31:27 Here I am, Frankie. I finally made it.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,038
Dialogue density10.4 lines / min
First line00:00:50
Final line01:31:27
Production Record
DirectorDavid Hugh Jones
LanguageEnglish
Revenue$2,538,291
IMDb votes11,741