Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Lee Israel, a doomed biographer, is trapped in a cycle of alcohol and loneliness, with an old Jersey cat as his only friend. When mountains of debt and rejection from publishers destroyed his life, he found a loophole: forging the letters of famous celebrities such as Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. With the help of Jack Hock, a fellow loser, Lee turns his writing skills into a dirty business that brings in money—until one day, his lies are almost exposed. But that's when he felt most alive. Will genius save him, or plunge him deeper?