Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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A once-successful celebrity biographer, broke and out of fashion, starts forging letters from dead literary legends — and discovers she's brilliant at it.
Why watch: Based on a real literary forger who faked 400 letters. McCarthy and Grant both Oscar-nominated.
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Cast
Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel
Richard E. Grant as Jack Hock
Dolly Wells as Anna
Ben Falcone as Alan Schmidt
Gregory Korostishevsky as Andrei
Jane Curtin as Marjorie
Stephen Spinella as Paul
Christian Navarro as Kurt
Pun Bandhu as Agent Doyle
Erik LaRay Harvey as Agent Solanas
Brandon Scott Jones as Glen
Shae D'Lyn as Nell
Rosal Colon as Rachel
Anna Deavere Smith as Elaine
Marc Evan Jackson as Lloyd
Crew
Marielle Heller — Director
Nicole Holofcener — Screenplay
Lee Israel — Book
Jeff Whitty — Screenplay
Jawal Nga — Executive Producer
Pamela Hirsch — Executive Producer
Bob Balaban — Executive Producer
Anne Carey — Producer
Amy Nauiokas — Producer
David Yarnell — Producer
Jennifer Euston — Casting
Brandon Trost — Director of Photography
Anne McCabe — Editor
Stephen H. Carter — Production Design
Marci Mudd — Art Direction
Arjun Bhasin — Costume Design
Nate Heller — Original Music Composer
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