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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lee finds herself on the end of a few of these. Marjorie, her literary agent, flat out tells Lee that her unpleasant personality and unwillingness to write her own stories are the reasons Lee's writing career is in the toilet.
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** Elaine gives a Lee a more polite one, explaining to Lee how her unwillingness to open up emotionally is reason their relationship didn't work.
--->'''Marjorie:'''You can be an asshole if you’re famous. You can’t be unknown and be such a bitch, Lee.
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** Lee finds herself on the end of a few of these. Marjorie, her literary agent, flat out tells Lee that her unpleasant personality and unwillingness to write her own stories are the reasons Lee's writing career is in the toilet.
** Elaine gives
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: You can put her in dowdy clothes and give her a bad haircut; but there is never any disguising the fact that there is still a pretty Creator/MelissaMcCarthy underneath all of it.
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* CantTakeCriticism: This seems to be Lee's biggest flaw.
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* OhCrap: Lee (and Jack who just happens to be there) when she receives a voice message from Paul asking her to come in to discuss something important about her Noel Coward letter. [[spoiler: Lee is right to be worried when Paul informs Lee that the contents of Coward letter are not only questionable, but she has been placed on a list informing people not to buy from her anymore.]]
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** Elaine gives a Lee a more polite one, explaining to Lee how her unwillingness to open up emotionally is reason their relationship didn't work.
--->'''Marjorie:'''You can be an asshole if you’re famous. You can’t be unknown and be such a bitch, Lee.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: Lee, though "kind-hearted" is only just barely applicable.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lee avoids prison time and writes a memoir about her experiences, but Jack passes away from AIDS. Also, her cat Jersey is still dead.]]
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* MasterForger: Lee Israel is a struggling biographer who takes to forging letters by famous writers and actors in order to make a quick buck, filling them with salacious personal details to drive up the price. She and her partner in crime, Jack Hock, even steal and sell original letters from libraries and archives, leaving behind forged duplicates. The film is [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the confessional memoir]] of the author Lee Israel, who sold over 400 forged or stolen letters in the space of two years.
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''Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Marielle Heller. Written by Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas Nicole Holofcener and David Yarnell, Jeff Whitty, it is based on the memoir of the same title written by Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel .
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* FiveFingerDiscount: At a party at her agent's house, Lee is seen taking toilet rolls from the bathroom and on her way out falsely claims another guest's coat as her own. Jack admits to being a shoplifter in the past.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lee avoids prison time and writes a memoir about her experiences, but Jack passes away from AIDS.]]
* GetOut: Lee to Jack [[spoiler: after she returns from Yale to find that Jersey has died while in Jack's care.]]
* GetOut: Lee to Jack [[spoiler: after she returns from Yale to find that Jersey has died while in Jack's care.]]
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* PrankCall: Lee and Jack are seen prank calling her ex-girlfriend, her literary agent and the secondhand bookshop manager who refused to buy her books at the start of the film.
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* TrashOfTheTitans: Lee's apartment is so messy that she has a fly infestation problem. When an exterminator comes to inspect it, he refuses to enter due to the smell coming from inside. To his horror, Jack discovers during the subsequent clean-up that Jersey has been using the floor under Lee's bed as a toilet.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The unscrupulous buyer who blackmails Lee is never punished even though he too sold multiple letters he knew to be forgeries.]]
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Lee clearly is attracted to Anna but holds back from saying anything due to her fears of rejection and of her forgeries being discovered. It's left ambiguous whether Anna reciprocates these feelings or merely admires Lee as a writer.
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* AmicableExes: {{Defied| trope}} in the case of Elaine, who'll show up to offer Lee a few words of comfort but finds it too exhausting to be part of her life.]]
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* TragicAIDSStory: [[spoiler:Jack is almost certainly HIV positive from his first appearance in the film. By the end he is clearly showing the effects of the disease.]]
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Set early in TheNineties, in some ways it shows a markedly different world. Lee's scheme wouldn't have occurred to her if she hadn't already been using a manual typewriter. Pay phones are also much more common than they are now.
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Set early in TheNineties, in some ways it shows a markedly different world. Lee's scheme wouldn't have occurred to her if she hadn't already been using a manual typewriter. Pay phones are also much more common than they are now.
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* VitrolicBestBuds: Lee and Jack.
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* NoSocialSkills: Lee, full stop. She just can't help but be rude to people she really can't afford to be rude to, leading to the complete destruction of her career and driving away almost all of her friends and loved ones by the start of the movie.
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* NoSocialSkills: Lee, full stop. She just can't help but be rude to people that she really can't afford to be rude to, leading to the complete destruction of her career and driving away almost all of her friends and loved ones by the start of the movie.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The arrogant blowhard author that Lee runs into at her agent's party turns out to be Creator/TomClancy.
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* TheAlcoholic: Lee and Jack are often seen drinking.
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* TheAlcoholic: Lee and Jack are often seen drinking. It has major consequences for both: perpetual drunkenness contributes to Jack's regular homelessness, while Lee is fired from her desk job for drinking in the office. [[spoiler:When Lee is found guilty of forgery, AA meetings become a condition of her parole.]]
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* KindHeartedCatLover: Lee.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Lee.
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'''Can You Ever Forgive Me?''' is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Marielle Heller. Written by Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell, it is based on the memoir of the same title written by Lee Israel.
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The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, before being released on October 19, 2018.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, before being released on October 19, 2018.
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'''Can You Ever Forgive Me?''' is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Marielle Heller Heller. Written by Anne Carey, Amy Nauiokas and David Yarnell, it is based on the memoir of the same title written by Lee Israel.
The film stars Creator/MelissaMcCarthy as Israel, who made her living writing profiles of high-achieving women, but is unable to get her work published due to her outdated writing style. She then turns to her friend Jack who sells forged letters on her behalf.
The film, which also co-stars Creator/RichardEGrant as Jack, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, before being released on October 19, 2018.
The film stars Creator/MelissaMcCarthy as Israel, who made her living writing profiles of high-achieving women, but is unable to get her work published due to her outdated writing style. She then turns to her friend Jack who sells forged letters on her behalf.
The film, which also co-stars Creator/RichardEGrant as Jack, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, before being released on October 19, 2018.
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'''Can You Ever Forgive Me''' is a biographical drama film directed by Marielle Heller and based on the memoir of the same title written by Lee Israel.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, before being released on October 19, 2018.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018, before being released on October 19, 2018.
