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Box office. $12.4 million [3] Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a 2018 American biographical film directed by Marielle Heller, with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the 2008 confessional memoir of the same name by Lee Israel. Melissa McCarthy stars as Israel, and the story follows her attempts to revitalize her failing ...
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?, by Lee Israel
Directed by Marielle Heller. With Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone. When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
- Marielle Heller
- 3 min
Oct 19, 2018 · This episode played out in real life remarkably similarly to the way it does in the film. Hock, claiming to have sold a collection of stolen letters for $1500, gave Israel $750.
- 3 min
Feb 22, 2019 · In 'Can You Ever Forgive Me', Melissa McCarthy plays Lee Israel forged 400 letters from Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway and more. McCarthy earned an Academy Award nomination for her ...
- Simon & Schuster
- Writer
Based on a true story. New York City 1991 3:30 AM. Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is 51 years old and in an office, working late as a copy editor at a publication corporation. A young colleague walks by and whispers that she's older than her mother and if she's still doing that kind of work at her age, to kill her.
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Oct 19, 2018 · Lee Israel had tasted success. Her career as a freelance journalist started in the 1960s, and she’d also published two successful biographies: one of actress Tallulah Bankhead in 1972, and one ...
Oct 19, 2018 · Every grifter needs an accomplice, and Lee's is a man named Jack Hock played by a droll and deliciously funny Richard E. Grant. Jack is a drifter with little money and no permanent address, just ...
