“Her greatest work will be her biggest crime.”
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
6.8
1,357 votes·2018
·1h 46m
·MovieDramaCrimeComedy
Overview
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Keywords
new york citybased on novel or bookcatbiographybased on true storyauthoralcoholicwoman directorcuriousforgeryfemale writer
Cast
Melissa McCarthy
Lee Israel
Richard E. Grant
Jack Hock
Dolly Wells
Anna
Ben Falcone
Alan Schmidt
Gregory Korostishevsky
Andrei
Jane Curtin
Marjorie
Stephen Spinella
Paul
Christian Navarro
Kurt
Pun Bandhu
Agent Doyle
Erik LaRay Harvey
Agent Solanas
Brandon Scott Jones
Glen
Shae D'Lyn
Nell
Rosal Colon
Rachel
Anna Deavere Smith
Elaine
Marc Evan Jackson
Lloyd
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