Can You Ever Forgive Me? Poster

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

R 10/19/2018 Drama, Crime, Comedy, History 1h 46m
68%
User
Score
7.1/10
98%
87/100

Her greatest work will be her biggest crime.

Overview

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Marielle Heller

Director

Nicole Holofcener

Screenplay

Jeff Whitty

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy

Lee Israel

Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant

Jack Hock

Dolly Wells

Dolly Wells

Anna

Ben Falcone

Ben Falcone

Alan Schmidt

Gregory Korostishevsky

Gregory Korostishevsky

Andrei

Jane Curtin

Jane Curtin

Marjorie

Stephen Spinella

Stephen Spinella

Paul

Christian Navarro

Christian Navarro

Kurt

Pun Bandhu

Pun Bandhu

Agent Doyle

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Media

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Richard E Grant on Can You Ever Forgive Me | Inside Picturehouse Special

Richard E Grant on Can You Ever Forgive Me | Inside Picturehouse Special

Featurette - A Literary World

Featurette - A Literary World

Featurette - Likely Friends

Featurette - Likely Friends

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Official Trailer

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Reviews

A review by Rodney Wollam

Written on November 10, 2018

Lee Israel was selfish, cold, sad, and disreputable. She was also really fun to know. Sookie nails this one....

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A review by Gimly

Written on February 26, 2019

Mad props to Melissa McCarthy for turning it around with this after _Happytime Murders_ and _Life of the Party_. Actually after basically every single thing I've seen her in up until this point. I honestly can't think of a single role I've liked her in. Until Lee Israel of course, because as her, in this, McCarthy is great.

Respect for Richard E. Grant in the supporting role as well.

It took me a little while after I'd finished watching _Can You Ever Forgive Me?_ to realise I liked it as much as I did, but I did.

_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._...

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A review by Stephen Campbell

Written on July 15, 2019

**_Unexpectedly emotional, with a towering central performance_**

> _I had never known anything but up in my career, had never received even one of those formatted no-thank-you slips that successful writers look back upon with triumphant jocularity. And I regarded with pity and disdain the short-sleeved wage slaves who worked in offices. I had no reason to believe life would get anything but better. I had had no experience failing_.

- Lee Israel; _Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger_ (2008)

Directed by Marielle Heller, with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener (who was originally attached to direct) and Jeff Whitty, _Can You Ever Forgive Me?_ is based on Lee Israel's 2008 memoir, _Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger_. Taking the form of a buddy c...

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written on May 29, 2024

Melissa McCarthy is outstanding in this retrospective dealing with the more "creative" aspects of the later career of acclaimed author Lee Israel. She genuinely elicits sympathy for the emptiness in, and sadness of, her life that led her to create a string of forgeries that led the literary world on a merry dance for years. Richard E. Grant totally deserved his Oscar nomination as her mischievous abettor and this all makes for a great trip through the mind of a not very devious or systematic criminal. Nothing like anything seen from McCarthy before, let's hope that there might be more of the same to come....

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