Selma Hayek who plays Carolina, the owner of a bookstore in Desperado.
One of my all-time favorite movies, You've Got Mail. My family has threatened to hide/destroy my copy on more than one occasion. They claim to be sick of seeing it. How could that be? Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) owns a charming indie children's bookstore called The Shop Around the Corner. Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is the owner of a giant, box bookstore called Fox Books.
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) at Arthur Gwynn Geiger's rare book shop in The Big Sleep.
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) at the Acme Bookstore in The Big Sleep.
84, Charing Cross Road is a film based on the book by Helene Hanff which is is based on her correspondence with a second hand and antiquarian booksellers, Marks and Co., over a period of 20 years. The film stars Anne Bancroft as Hanff and Anthony Hopkins Frank Doel.
Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) and William Thacker (Hugh Grant) in The Travel Bookshop that Will owns in the movie, Notting Hill.
Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) meet for the third time in a New York City bookstore in When Harry Met Sally.
Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) and Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) in the bookstore, Embryo Concepts in the musical, Funny Face.
Mark (Eric McCormack) and Robert (Rafer Weigel) bump into their hero, William Shatner, in a bookstore in movie, Free Enterprise.
Booklover, Bastian Bux (Barret Oliver), hides from bullies in a bookstore interrupting the grumpy bookseller, Mr. Koreander (Thomas Hill) in The NeverEnding Story. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ende.
Sam (Ewan McGregor) visits a bookstore to learn more about his patient, a suicidal college student, in the movie Stay.
Enjoy!
Angela
This is an interesting look at bookstores in movies. I am familiar with all the movies, just never thought of them all like this. Great post.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Alex! I worked hard on this one.
DeleteI love The Shop Around the Corner. The film is one if my all time favorites.
ReplyDeleteThis post is great. Love it. So many bookstores in films :)
Hi Karin,
DeleteMine too! Thanks so much for stopping by and the kind words.
I arrived here through a google images search, but I'll definitely stick around! I love most of the movies you mentioned and I didn't remember Stay and Eternal Sunshine as having bookstores in them. Great list!
ReplyDeleteHi Paula,
DeleteWelcome! Thanks so much for sticking around.
We all struggle to get work, pay our bills, find love, achieve fulfilment, squeeze into our jeans, and assemble flat-pack furniture. We need help dealing with all that. And help is there, has always been there, in movies.
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