she sells to Anna, who gushes about the content. "Can You Ever Forgive Me? A letter from Dorothy Parker, in which ends up with "Can you ever forgive me, Dorothy?" B ased on real events in the life of literary forger Leonore Carol “Lee” Israel, Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? grossed $8.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $2.9 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $11.7 million, against a production budget of $10 million. This review was filed from the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10th, 2018. is a riveting story about a gifted writer who would rather write other people’s stories. That’s where the unexpected pleasures of Can You Ever Forgive Me — which could have been an intensely miserable film — sneak in. I'll keep the review quick: Can You Ever Forgive Me? spielt Melissa McCarthy nach wahren Begebenheiten die Journalistin Lee Israel, die Briefe von verstorbenen Stars fälscht, um selbst Anerkennung zu erhalten. movie reviews & Metacritic score: When bestselling celebrity biographer, Lee Israel, is no longer able to get published because she … Can You Ever Forgive Me?’s premise is so low-key outrageous, it would almost have to be true. Can You Ever Forgive Me? Can You Ever Forgive Me? I picked it up hoping to read it before watching the film. As an exasperated Marjorie explains to her: “You can be an asshole when you’re famous. grossed $150,000 from five theaters in its opening weekend. At once a low-key crime drama, a period piece, and a buddy-comedy of sorts, Can You Ever Forgive Me? She hasn't been published in years, she just got fired, she's way behind on her rent, and now her cat is sick. is a very short book about a very short (but career defining) period in Lee Israel's life. At once a low-key crime drama, a period piece, and a buddy-comedy of sorts, Can You Ever Forgive Me? begins in the early 1990s, with the once-successful biography author (Melissa McCarthy) in dire financial straits, unable to keep up with changing industry trends. In CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, once-touted biographical author Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is extremely down on her luck. Can You Ever Forgive Me is a film that takes a larger than life story, and tells it with characters and actions that speak at a more conversational tone. Both McCarthy and Grant are brilliant in their roles. Lee buys more typewriters and each one is assigned to a different author on which she writes various letters in the voice of these authors, after researching the way they write. Melissa McCarthy has been in need of a substantial dramatic role for quite a while, and in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” which opens on Friday, she gets one—and makes the most of it. (Mary Cybulski/Twentieth Century Fox) The movie forgives Melissa McCarthy’s character for … ", based on and named after Israel's slender autobiographical recap of this period, is a highly intelligent and detailed rendering of a complex human being, by turns endearing and repulsive, brilliant and stupid.