

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Her greatest work will be her biggest crime.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $8.6M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- cat
- biography
- based on true story
- author
- alcoholic
- woman director
- curious
- forgery
- female writer
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival1 Sept 2018
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival10 Oct 2018
- PremiereSan Diego International Film Festival13 Oct 2018
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival14 Oct 2018
- PremiereMiddleburg Film Festival19 Oct 2018
- Theatrical (limited)R19 Oct 2018
- PremiereAustin Film Festival27 Oct 2018
- PremierePalm Springs International Film Festival4 Jan 2019
- PhysicalR19 Feb 2019
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival19 Oct 2018
- PremiereFilmBath Festival2 Nov 2018
- Theatrical151 Feb 2019
- Digital / OTT153 Jun 2019
- Physical153 Jun 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMA 15+Adelaide Film Festival21 Oct 2018
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival8 Sept 2018
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereMar del Plata Film Festival11 Nov 2018
AustriaAT
- Digital / OTT621 Feb 2019
BrazilBR
- Theatrical16Fox Film7 Nov 2018
FranceFR
- PremiereChamps-Élysées Film Festival25 Jun 2019
- Theatrical31 Jul 2019
- Digital / OTTVOD1 Dec 2019
- PhysicalDVD1 Apr 2020
- Digital / OTT16Disney+5 Aug 2022
GeorgiaGE
- TV7 Mar 2019
GermanyDE
- Theatrical021 Feb 2019
GreeceGR
- Theatrical14 Feb 2019
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical13 Dec 2018
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? was released on 19 October 2018.
Audience reviews
4- R9/10
Rodney Wollam
11/10/2018
Lee Israel was selfish, cold, sad, and disreputable. She was also really fun to know. Sookie nails this one.
- G6/10
Gimly
2/26/2019
Mad props to Melissa McCarthy for turning it around with this after _Happytime Murders_ and _Life of the Party_. Actually after basically every single thing I've seen her in up until this point. I honestly can't think of a single role I've liked her in. Until Lee Israel of course, because as her, in this, McCarthy is great. Respect for Richard E. Grant in the supporting role as well. It took me a little while a…
- S8/10
Stephen Campbell
7/14/2019
**_Unexpectedly emotional, with a towering central performance_** > _I had never known anything but up in my career, had never received even one of those formatted no-thank-you slips that successful writers look back upon with triumphant jocularity. And I regarded with pity and disdain the short-sleeved wage slaves who worked in offices. I had no reason to believe life would get anything but better. I had had no e…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/29/2024
Melissa McCarthy is outstanding in this retrospective dealing with the more "creative" aspects of the later career of acclaimed author Lee Israel. She genuinely elicits sympathy for the emptiness in, and sadness of, her life that led her to create a string of forgeries that led the literary world on a merry dance for years. Richard E. Grant totally deserved his Oscar nomination as her mischievous abettor and this all…
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