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Can You Ever Forgive Me?

2018 · Comedy · Marielle Heller · 1h 47m

A broke and prickly New York biographer works out that she can pay the rent by writing letters in dead authors' voices and selling them. Dry, funny, and largely two people drinking in bars.

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  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly character-driven

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