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** Also applies in the case of Tom Clancy, who at the party in the beginning of the film is preening himself on all the work he puts into his writing, when in real life Tom Clancy regularly relied on other people doing his research for him.
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The film stars Creator/MelissaMcCarthy as Israel, who made her living writing profiles of high-achieving women, but is unable to get her work published due to her outdated writing style. She then turns to her friend Jack who sells forged letters on her behalf.
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The film stars Creator/MelissaMcCarthy as Israel, who made her living writing profiles of high-achieving women, but is unable to get her work published due to her outdated writing style.preference for subjects that relatively few people are interested in. She then turns to her friend Jack who sells forged letters on her behalf.
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* HypocriticalHumor: When Jack calls Lee a forger, she haughtily replies that she's not a forger, she's creating "literary treasures". Jack refrains from pointing out that they're only technically "treasures" because people are willing to pay a lot of money for them because they believe them to be genuine. He simply points out that the people whose letters she is creating didn't actually write them.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Lee clearly is attracted to Anna but holds back from saying anything due to her fears of rejection and of her forgeries being discovered. It's left ambiguous whether Anna reciprocates these feelings or merely admires Lee as a writer.
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Lee clearly is attracted to Anna but holds back from saying anything due to her fears of rejection and of her forgeries being discovered. It's left ambiguous whether Anna reciprocates these feelings or merely admires Lee as a writer.writer; when she calls herself and Lee "friends" and Lee corrects her to "Drinking buddies", she looks hurt.
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* IllBoy: [[spoiler:Towards the end of the film, Jack is dying of AIDS.]]
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''Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Marielle Heller. Written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, it is based on the memoir of the same title written by Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel .
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''Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' is a 2018 American biographical drama comedy-drama film directed by Marielle Heller. Written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, it is based on the memoir of the same title written by Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel .
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* TheNineties: Set in 1991, to be exact.
