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Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a 2018 American biographical drama 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.
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: 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.
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. In the early 1990s, Lee Israel, a biographer with a modicum of writing success, has fallen on hard times largely of her own doing.
Lee Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in 1990s New York. Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to...
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.
When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant).
Lee Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in 1990s New York. Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors.