VIDEO: Check Out the Trailer for CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME Starring Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970's and 80's profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.
As the story begins, Israel has gone broke because she is no longer able to get her writing published. She has fallen out of step with the publishing industry's new trend of warts-and-all biographies. New Yorkers consider her book about Lauder to be boring. Employees of the Doubleday Book Shop in midtown Manhattan can't give away their copies of it. (In Israel's memoir she says, referring to Lauder, "I didn't give a [expletive] about her warts." Her publisher had a different attitude.) A broke Israel turns to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack, who recently completed a prison sentence for armed robbery.
Israel begins selling letters that she has forged that appear to have been written by deceased writers, playwrights and actors. When a letter that Israel says was written by Noel Coward raises suspicion, people stop buying letters from her. She and Jack begin stealing actual letters from library archives and selling them.
The film is scheduled to be released on October 19, 2018, by FOX Searchlight Pictures.
Watch the trailer below!
