When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 54 wins & 102 nominations total
Rosal Colon
- Rachel
- (as Rosal Colón)
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Did you know
- TriviaA pile of Lee Israel books ("Beyond the Magic", an unauthorized biography of Estée Lauder) are shown on sale at a bookstore for 75% off. Lauder was publishing her own memoirs and initially tried to pay Israel *not* to write her book, but she refused and rushed her book to publication. The autobiography was released in October 1985 and Israel's biography one month later. The book buying public chose to buy the Lauder autobiography rather than the Israel biography. Lee Israel later said she regretted not taking the money when it was first offered.
- GoofsA couple of times we see the characters sitting in a bar, while a snowstorm is obviously occurring outside, but when they walk outside, there isn't any snow on the ground at all.
- Crazy creditsAs the closing credits start, they move to the left side of the screen and information about the protagonists appears on the right.
- Alternate versionsAhead of the film's release in Australia, the distributor chose to pre-cut the film in order to obtain an M classification. These changes removed detail of hard drug misuse (cocaine snorting) through re-framing, and also removed the film's sole use of very strong language by re-dubbing the term with a milder phrase. The uncut international version was later approved for a DVD/Video release with an uncut MA15+ classification.
- SoundtracksI Thought Of You Last Night
Written by Ralph Freed
Performed by Jeri Southern
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Featured review
Melissa McCarthy has created a character, in her career that could keep her in lucrative employment without taking any risks.
Kudos to her for playing this risky a role, and pulling it off with aplomb. Richard E Grant is whimsy to her determination, but she successfully breathes life into a complex character.
Great film
Kudos to her for playing this risky a role, and pulling it off with aplomb. Richard E Grant is whimsy to her determination, but she successfully breathes life into a complex character.
Great film
- anthonydesmondolivier
- Jul 23, 2020
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- Also known as
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,803,865
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $161,510
- Oct 21, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $12,442,161
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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