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      • Based on a true story, “ Can You Ever Forgive Me?” follows the exploits of Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), a Jewish lesbian writer who bolsters her failing writing career by forging and selling rare literary letters with the help of a foppish drifter named Jack Hock (Richard E. Grant).
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  3. time.com › 5391193The True Story Behind the Movie Can You Ever Forgive Me? - TIME

    Oct 19, 2018 · Can You Ever Forgive Me?, released on Oct. 19, is based on Israel’s memoir of the same name. Directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) and starring McCarthy as Israel,...

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  4. www.townandcountrymag.com › leisure › arts-andTrue Story of Can You Ever Forgive Me? - What Happened to Lee ...

    Feb 22, 2019 · The film, starring Melissa McCarthy, is based on Israel's 2008 memoir of the same name, in which she details the crimes and the forces in her life that lead her to commit them. View...

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  5. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsLee Israel: The real-life story behind Oscar-nominated Can ...

    Yet a memoir she wrote about the period, published in 2008 to mixed reviews, has now been given further life, adapted into a film bearing the same title: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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  7. www.vox.com › 2018/10/19 › 17979560Can You Ever Forgive Me?: true stories behind Melissa ... - Vox

    Oct 19, 2018 · The new film is based on a memoir by Lee Israel, a biographer turned literary forger.

  8. www.historyvshollywood.com › reelfaces › can-youCan You Ever Forgive Me? vs the True Story of Lee Israel's ...

    Oct 14, 2018 · The female bookstore owner, Anna (Dolly Wells), is not based on a real person and her brief romance with Lee Israel is fictional. In the movie, Israel (Melissa McCarthy) shuts down a potential romance with Anna almost as soon as it begins, revealing Israel's fear of letting anybody get close to her, and vice versa.

  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Can_You_Ever_Forgive_MeCan You Ever Forgive Me? - Wikipedia

    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.

  10. www.refinery29.com › en-gb › 2018/10/214416Can You Ever Forgive Me Is A Brazenly-Bold True Story

    Oct 18, 2018 · Over the course of three years, Lee Israel faked hundreds of literary letters. Her brazen forgeries are the subject of a new Melissa McCarthy movie.

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