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Name: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Released: 2018-10-19
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

R
1h 47m
2018

98%

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Melissa McCarthy is masterful in the captivating account — based on a true story — of Lee Israel, a best-selling celebrity biographer in the 1970s and ’80s. When Lee (McCarthy) comes to the realization that she’s no longer en vogue, she spins her art form into a perilous web of lies, deceit and outright crime to get back on top.

Director:

Marielle Heller

Producer:

Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas, David Yarnell

Writer:

Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty

Cast:

Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant

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PROMOTIONAL FEATURETTES

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AUDIO COMMENTARY BY MARIELLE HELLER AND MELISSA MCCARTHY

1 HR 46 MIN

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THEATRICAL TRAILER

2 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

98%

Critics Consensus: Deftly directed and laced with dark wit, Can You Ever Forgive Me? proves a compelling showcase for deeply affecting work from Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy.

Reviews

Washington Blade

Brian T. Carney

Melissa McCarthy turns in a great performance as the grouchy writer and Richard Grant is terrific as her gay sidekick.

McCarthy and Grant have really nice chemistry and that makes for some entertaining back-and-forths between two otherwise shady people.

Films about writers are hard to make. Films about real-life writers impersonating multiple celebrities in letters bring an element of some much-welcomed lunacy to a film that makes Can You Ever Forgive Me? more of a literary Catch Me If You Can.

This film is a bittersweet delight and McCarthy shines in a role that should be thoroughly unappealing but isn’t. In fact, she delivers a kind of queer, feminist anti-hero that I have not seen before.

Makes for an unlikely story of redemption, one that leaves its audience oddly appreciative of the artistry it took to carry out a fraud.

March 4, 2022

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