Poste restante

A film for people who like letters more than people. Helene, a New York writer, begins a twenty-year correspondence with Frank, a London bookseller. Their transatlantic repartee is charming, really, if you can get past the quaintness.

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David Hugh Jones directed Poste restante in 1987. See David Hugh Jones's full filmography, where to start with David Hugh Jones, or where to go after you've seen everything by David Hugh Jones.

Poste restante was released in 1987 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 100 minutes.