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Helen Hanff (Anne Bancroft), a feisty New York writer, mails a letter to a small London bookshop requesting some rare English classics. Frank Doel (An...(read more...) thony Hopkins), the reserved English bookseller, answers her request, beginning a touching and humorous correspondence that spans two continents and two decades. Frank and Helen draw us into their lives -- and their extraordinary friendship -- with their intimate, richly detailed letters.

Director: David Hugh Jones

MPAA: Unrated

Release Date: Dec 31, 1986

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Jean De Baer, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Mercedes Ruehl