TY  - ADVS
AU  - Heller,Marielle
AU  - Carey,Anne
AU  - Nauiokas,Amy
AU  - Yarnell,David
AU  - Holofcener,Nicole
AU  - Whitty,Jeff
AU  - McCarthy,Melissa
AU  - Grant,Richard E.
AU  - Wells,Dolly
AU  - Falcone,Ben
AU  - Curtin,Jane
AU  - Smith,Anna Deavere
AU  - Spinella,Stephen
AU  - Navarro,Christian
AU  - Heller,Nate
AU  - McCabe,Anne
AU  - Trost,Brandon
AU  - Carter,Stephen
AU  - Israel,Lee
ED  - Fox Searchlight Pictures,
ED  - TSG Entertainment,
ED  - Archer Gray (Firm),
ED  - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,
TI  - Can you ever forgive me?
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Beverly Hills, CA
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; Based on the book by Lee Israel; Wide screen (2.40:1); Special features: deleted scenes; commentary by director Marielle Heller and Melissa McCarthy; galleries; theatrical trailer; promotional featurettes: Elevator pitch, Becoming Lee Israel, 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, Anna Deavere Smith, 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  -