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Please, Mr. Postman: 20 Essential Movies About Letters
Wicked Little Letters joins a surprisingly wide canon of movies about the joys of correspondence.
Max Ophüls’s film is a heartbreaking story of unrequited love: While Letter From an Unknown Woman didn’t make much of an impact in the 1940s, it’s now rightly viewed as a masterpiece, a gorgeously composed romance with heartrending dialogue and perfect performances. Letters can connect the unlikeliest of people and breach the widest of gaps; in the case of 84 Charing Cross Road, New York writer Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) and London bookseller Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) strike up a powerful friendship on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. A teen movie that proved a defining benchmark for many kids born in the ’90s, A Cinderella Story refreshes the classic fairy tale in the San Fernando Valley, where Sam (Hilary Duff) works tirelessly for her evil stepmother (a delightful Jennifer Coolidge).
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