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| Movie Name : |
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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| Cinema Type : |
Hollywood
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| Release Date : |
19-Oct-2018( 5 years, 334 days ago)
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| Directed By : |
Marielle Heller |
| Production House : |
Anne Carey,Amy Nauiokas,David Yarnell |
| Genre : |
Comedy |
| Lead Role : |
Melissa McCarthy, Julie Ann Emery, Christian Navarro
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Rating:3/5
Despite her brilliant energy and comic timing, Melissa McCarthy has starred in a number of not-so-great and forgettable movies—a streak that ends with Marielle Heller’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Here, McCarthy makes a grouchy curmudgeon into a surprisingly sympathetic figure, throwing off her likable persona to play someone who is cold to those close to her, and mean to just about everyone else.
As a biographer who specializes in telling other people’s stories, Lee Israel (McCarthy) doesn’t value name recognition as much as her literary agent (Jane Curtin). She also doesn’t dress up for parties or mingle with other writers well, and it’s costing her professionally. After losing her job, her beloved cat taking ill and receiving an eviction warning, Israel adapts her writing skills into creating fake letters from famous names and selling them for hundreds of dollars. It becomes a wildly lucrative new career—one that attracts the attention of the FBI. In trying to avoid detection, Israel enlists her close friend, Jack Hock (Richard E. Grant), to keep the fraud going until the feds catch up with them both.