TY - ADVS AU - Heller,Marielle AU - Carey,Anne AU - Nauiokas,Amy AU - Yarnell,David AU - Holofcener,Nicole AU - Whitty,Jeff AU - Grant,Richard E. AU - Wells,Dolly AU - Falcone,Ben AU - Curtin,Jane AU - McCarthy,Melissa AU - Spinella,Stephen AU - Navarro,Christian AU - Israel,Lee ED - Fox Searchlight Pictures, ED - Archer Gray (Firm), ED - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., TI - Can you ever forgive me? SN - 9786317563742 AV - PN1997.2 .C36 2019 U1 - 791.43/72 23 PY - 2019/// PB - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Israel, Lee KW - Women biographers KW - Drama KW - Forgers KW - United States KW - Literary forgeries and mystifications KW - Letters KW - Forgeries KW - Biographical films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Historical films KW - Fiction films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Video recordings for people with visual disabilities N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2018; Wide screen (2.40:1); Based on the book by Lee Israel; Special features: Deleted scenes; Commentary by director Marielle Heller and Melissa McCarthy; Galleries; Elevator pitch; Becoming Lee Isreal; Likely friends; A literary world; Music, Nate Heller ; film editor, Anne McCabe ; production designer, Stephen Carter ; director of photography, Brandon Trost; Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella, Christian Navarro; MPAA rating: R; for language including some sexual references, and brief drug use N2 - Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Lee Israel has undeniable profiling skills, her work has grown stale and hackneyed, rendering her profession unnecessary and insignificant. Now in times of financial hardship, Israel must find other ways to make a living. With assistance from her steadfast friend, Jack, the two endeavor to keep Israel afloat. With a dose of trickery and deceptive eye, they do just that ER -