Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Movie

2018

1h 47m

English

Drama, Crime, Comedy

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7.3

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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.

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Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Movie

2018

1h 47m

English

Drama, Crime, Comedy

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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.

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Cast

Lee Israel

Jack Hock

Anna

Alan Schmidt

Gregory Korostishevsky

Andrei

Marjorie

Paul

Kurt

Agent Doyle

Agent Solanas

Glen

Nell

Rachel

Elaine

Lloyd

Guest at Party

Tom Clancy Groupie

Karen

Yale Librarian

Tom Clancy

Coat Check Guy

Mrs. Unger

Exterminator

Arlene

Judge

Directed By: Marielle Heller

Written By: Nicole Holofcener (Screenplay), Jeff Whitty (Screenplay)

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nmahoney416 says...

6 years ago

It’s nice to see Melissa McCarthy doing a serious role and really acting after some really bad movies. Her and Richard E. Grant had great chemistry. They are a lot of fun together. Those two make this worth watching. Otherwise the movie is pretty straightforward.

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coffee_in_an_iv says...

6 years ago

Lee Israel is not a very nice person... and yet she is kinda sympathetic. I feel similarly about the movie. It’s not a very good film, and yet you kinda spend a good time watching it.

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alopix says...

6 years ago

Who would have thought that Melissa McCarthy is actually a good actress when she doesn’t play the pseudo funny roles. Interesting story and well made movie.

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Charlez7 says...

6 years ago

I guess I'm in the minority on this one. Good acting but slow, boring, sad story that did nothing to draw me in.

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AndrewBloom

CONTAINS SPOILERS9/10 6 years ago

[8.5/10] I tweeted that that *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* is the “gentlest, most intimate *Breaking Bad* remake I've ever seen,” and I’m only half-joking. While selling literary forgeries and defrauding literary collectors is a long long way from making meth and getting into lethal scraps wi More

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Gimly

6 years ago

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 More

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Stephen Campbell

5 years ago

**_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- More

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Columbusbuck

6 years ago

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

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