Movie · Comedy · Drama

When former bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel becomes desperate for money in the 1990s New York, she hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors.

2019 · 1h 46m
Director Marielle Heller

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Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Comedy

When former bestselling celebrity biographer Lee Israel becomes desperate for money in the 1990s New York, she hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors.

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Average 8.2
Reviews 318
Fresh 312
Rotten 6

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Studio
Fox Searchlight
Released
2019
Run Time
1 hr 46 min
Rated
M Offensive language, sexual references & drug use.
Content Advisories
Offensive language, Drug use
Region of Origin
United States
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Languages

Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom)
Audio

English (United States) (AD, AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC, SDH), Arabic , Bulgarian , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hindi , Hungarian , Icelandic , Indonesian , Italian (Italy) , Japanese , Korean , Latvian , Lithuanian , Malay , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Romanian , Russian , Serbian (Latin) , Slovak , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese

Accessibility

Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.