Lee Israel feels humiliated because her Estée Lauder biography is highly discounted and she gets rejected by publishing houses and bookstores however, her literary agent, Marjorie (Saturday Night Live’s Jane Curtin) lets her know she needs to become a nicer person. As a matter of fact, she had many choices, as we all do. We learn of her isolation, her feelings of failure, and her romantic self-sabotage.Īnd while we can see the reasoning behind Lee Israel’s desperate measures, we also see she had a choice.
In Can You Ever Forgive Me?, we see Lee Israel get from a dead-end desk job, close to being evicted from her infested apartment on the Upper West Side of New York, and unable to pay for her sick cat to get treated. Melissa McCarthy is brilliant as Lee Israel, a best-selling celebrity biographer in the 1970s and ’80s turned struggling artist, who turns to lies, deceit, and crime to survive and find satisfaction in her work.
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