Flicks Cinema - 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'

'can You Ever Forgive Me?' (M) 102mins Tickets from eventfinda.co.nz / on door TEXT bookings to 0210 222 5558

Friday 17th May 10-30pm / 6pm / 8-15pm

​Gets 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
In an impressive departure, comic genius Melissa McCarthy tries her hand at a new kind of character, bringing warmth to her portrayal of a prickly New York writer turned forger.

Melissa McCarthy stars as Lee Israel, the best-selling celebrity biographer (and cat lover) who made her living in the 1970's and 80's profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estée Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee found herself unable to get published because she had fallen out of step with the marketplace, she turned her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant). R (for language including some sexual references, and brief drug use)
Comedy, Drama Directed By: Marielle Heller Written By: Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty Lee Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in 1990s New York.

Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors. When the dealers start to catch on, Lee recruits a dubious friend to help her continue her self-destructive cycle of trickery and deceit.e Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in 1990s New York. Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors. When the dealers start to catch on, Lee recruits a dubious friend to help her continue her self-destructive cycle of trickery and deceit.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? was nominated for a 2019 Oscar in the following categories: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay