Melissa McCarty is an amazing actress. If you forgot this trailer will remind you.
“The Diary of a Teenage Girl” Marielle Heller director is back with “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Based on Lee Israel’s autobiography and with a Nicole Holofcener script — the film unspools the crazy story of Israel (McCarthy), once a lauded celeb biographer who turned to fraud and plagiarism. And it wasn’t just stories or books she faked, but letters from famous people, which she then sold to unsuspecting buyers (and when she couldn’t fake a good letter, she’d steal and sell a real one).
The film also stars Jane Curtin, Richard E. Grant, Jennifer Westfeldt, Dolly Wells, and Anna Deavere Smith.
Heller explained that she’s eager to get away from traditional biopic tropes, and this first look indicates this is hardly some stale look inside a past life. “There are pitfalls to biopics that are hard to get away from,” Heller said. “There’s an expectation that you’re doing a certain amount of journalistic storytelling that’s going to give an exact play-by-play showing someone’s entire life from cradle to grave. This does none of that.”
The film opens on October 19.’
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