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Can You Ever Forgive Me?

20181h 46mDrama · Crime · Comedy
directed by Marielle Heller

“Her greatest work will be her biggest crime.”

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4 / 10
TMDB
6.8 / 10
1,357 votes
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7.1 / 10
58,228 votes
Metacritic
87 / 100
Rotten Tomatoes
98%

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Synopsis

When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Cast

Melissa McCarthy·Lee Israel
Richard E. Grant·Jack Hock
Dolly Wells·Anna
Ben Falcone·Alan Schmidt
Gregory Korostishevsky·Andrei
Jane Curtin·Marjorie
Stephen Spinella·Paul
Christian Navarro·Kurt
Pun Bandhu·Agent Doyle
Erik LaRay Harvey·Agent Solanas

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