Can You Ever Forgive Me?

“Her greatest work will be her biggest crime.”

In New York in the early 1990s, Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), once a bestselling celebrity biographer, can no longer get published and is nearly broke. She starts typing letters in the voices of dead authors and playwrights, and selling them. Marielle Heller follows Lee and her drinking buddy Jack Hock (Richard E. Grant), an easy charmer who becomes her partner and her only close friend.