Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) 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. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant).
This is one of those movies where you know the movie is well done and the acting is really good but there was literally no hook fully keeping me interested in it. Like I watched the whole thing. Didn't want to pull the plug because it was bad. But it was really just there without that hook. Which is incredibly unfortunate because I love Melissa McCarthy and the story was really good. I just don't know what it was. It was definitely missing the emotional or attention hook.
I wouldn't really recommend people bothering with this. It was just one of those "kind of there" movies.
