Can you Ever Forgive Me?
2018
***
Director: Marielle Heller
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtin, Ben Falcone, Tim Cummings, Anna Deavere Smith
Marielle Heller's second feature tells an enjoyable but rather trivial real-life story of Lee Israel, down on her luck biographer who realised in the early 1990s that there is money to made in forging letters from famous writers. Jack Hock, a pitiful gay hustler, becomes her friend and partner in crime. Lee and Jack are delicious characters, and McCarthy and Grant give worthy performances in their respective roles. Based on Israel's memoir.
