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Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a 2018 drama crime comedy film, directed by Marielle Heller, starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant and Dolly Wells.
- 67 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy
- posts span Nov 10, 2018 to Oct 29, 2026
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60 of 77 · most liked firstMy profile of the sharp, insightful director Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), whose newest movie Nightbitch comes out in December: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
neutral · AI labelView post →Four 📽 Faves: Richard E. Grant Grant is so damned funny & enlivens every project as writer, director, or actor. Happy Birthday, you mad genius, 5/5/1957. 1987 Withnail & I 1989 How to Get Ahead in Advertising 2001 Gosford Park 2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Can You Ever Forgive Me? (set in 1990s) American Splendor
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 69th Birthday to the great Richard E. Grant, Oscar-nominated Swazi-English actor, author, director, and presenter, acclaimed for roles in WITHNAIL & I, HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING, THE PLAYER, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, GOSFORD PARK, JACKIE, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, SALTBURN, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Marielle Heller’s CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? is a perfect holiday season movie even though it’s not about the holidays at all. Chilly/wintery NYC streets, melancholic, bitterly funny, gorgeously observant & squeezes your heart in all the right places, especially if you watch it under a blanket. ♥️
positive · AI labelView post →re-sharing my essay on CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? jourdainsearles.com/b-word/can-y...
neutral · AI labelView post →I gotta double feature this with Can You Ever Forgive Me? sometime letterboxd.com/magscolvett/...
neutral · AI labelView post →𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓷𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓵𝔂 𝓬𝓻𝓾𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝔂 𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓹𝓲𝓹𝓮. I MAY HAVE A BEEN A TAD HARSH… … CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME UWU 𝓘𝓽 𝓭𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷’𝓽 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓴 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓪𝔂 𝓲𝓽. IT DOESN’T WORK WHEN YOU SAY IT EITHER. … #fnafau #ensnared
neutral · AI labelView post →Can You Ever Forgive Me?
neutral · AI labelView post →I really loved Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? She nailed that one
positive · AI labelView post →Name a film with a female director. "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" 2018 directed by Marielle Heller, with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty. I really love this film , I've said before I'd happily watch the 2 main characters interact without the caper plot. Melissa McCarthy is brilliant
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to the great Jane Curtin, Emmy-winning actress and comedian, who was #BOTD on 9/6/1947. Famous for films CONEHEADS, ANTZ, I LOVE YOU MAN, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, and TV like SNL, KATE & ALLIE, 3rd ROCK FROM THE SUN, UNFORGETTABLE, THE GOOD FIGHT, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →It would make a rather good double bill with another melancholic, funny New York literary film, Can You Ever Forgive Me? I enjoyed Late Fame, I recommend it to anyone. Watching Dafoe in a lead role as a normal person, as good as anything cinema can offer.
neutral · AI labelView post →I wonder if a day will ever come to pass where I don't think about how bad I want to re-watch CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? at least a couple of times
positive · AI labelView post →🎥 Complete 2024 Watchlist! 🎥 Worst movie of the year was definitely Twisters, by a wide big large huge margin. Favorite first watches: Love Lies Bleeding All Of Us Strangers The Taste of Things Lucky First Reformed Can You Ever Forgive Me
positive · AI labelView post →I FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE CIRINA FLING. CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME FOR OMITTING THIS CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE
neutral · AI labelView post →6 September 1947 – Jane Curtin, 79, US actress, comedian. #SNL (1975-80) * Kate & Allie (1984-89) * Coneheads * 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) * Our Town * The Librarian (2004–08) * Crumbs * Shaggy Dog * The Good Fight * Can You Ever Forgive Me? * United We Fall * Back in Black (2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →26 August 1970 – Melissa McCarthy, 56, US actress, comedian, writer Oscar nominated Bridesmaids (2011) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) Gilmore Girls (2000-07) Mike & Molly * The Heat * Identity Thief * St Vincent * Spy * The Boss * #SNL * Ghostbusters * Life of the Party * Superintelligence (2021)
neutral · AI labelView post →MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 30. Somebody writing with a pencil in a movie Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) dir. Marielle Heller
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film or films (if I can't decide) from each year of my life. #BirthYearTillNow #FilmChallenge #MovieSky Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) dir. Marielle Heller
positive · AI labelView post →Let us not forget that Richard E Grant should have gotten an Oscar for Can You Ever Forgive Me.
positive · AI labelView post →If you're looking for a lady, maybe CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
neutral · AI labelView post →March: WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) LOVE ME TENDER (2025) CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (2018)
neutral · AI labelView post →Sadly, I missed this at the cinema, but I’m looking forward to streaming LF once it lands on Mubi next month. I loved CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, and Dafoe is one of my favourite working actors, so the package sounds irresistible. (Have been meaning to read Schnitzler’s book, too!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Dreadful. You’ve made me want to see it though. I like Can You Ever Forgive Me, too. Great sense of place in that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can You Ever Forgive Me (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
neutral · AI labelView post →CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (2018) has been all but forgotten despite being a literally perfect film. Two knockout performances. Touching and funny study of pride, loneliness and self-sabotage. Brilliant evocation of still bohemian early ‘90s New York. Great soundtrack.
positive · AI labelView post →Check out the film *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* It's Melissa McCarthy in a far more dramatic role than her usual (but still darkly funny) and she is amazing in it. She gets to do so much more than her usual schtick.
positive · AI labelView post →tonight's rewatch: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The phenomenal Night Bitch (2024) directed by Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me (2018)), starring Amy Adams and Scooter McNairy. #NightBitch Kudos to the #ArtDepartment too! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sure you've seen it already, but if not, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, with a brilliant Melissa McCarthy as a grumpy, misanthropic, cash-strapped writer who is being dropped by her agent (though nb: I may identify more than most with this character.) Happy birthday!
positive · AI labelView post →Reportedly Julianne Moore wanted to wear one for Can You Ever Forgive Me, and the director was like "Nah" the movie is better for it, and Melissa McCarthy is great in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Feels like a fictional blend of Can You Ever Forgive Me?’s forgery & the dark, obsessive atmosphere of a sapphic academia novel. The house and its somewhat sordid past had me picturing something similar to Hill House or The Overlook Hotel, and I love that fanfiaddict.com/review-your-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember having this exact experience a long time ago when I saw Can You Ever Forgive Me?
neutral · AI labelView post →Can You Ever Forgive Me For Tax Purposes?
neutral · AI labelView post →l love these kinds of movies so much... soderbergh is talented at those, with 'No Sudden Move' and 'Logan Lucky' being good examples. two of my fav in that genre would be hitchcock's 'The Rope' and marielle heller's 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'
positive · AI labelView post →Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
neutral · AI labelView post →I have *got* to stop confusing Sorry to Bother You, and Can You Ever Forgive Me?.
neutral · AI labelView post →Can You Ever Forgive Me? is high on my list of “under the radar” movies. Grant and McCarthy had great chemistry. Great to see Jane Curtin too.
positive · AI labelView post →5 May 1957 – Richard E. Grant (Esterhuysen), 69, Swazi-UK actor. Withnail and I * How to Get Ahead in Advertising * Henry & June * Bram Stoker's Dracula * Gosford Park * Game of Thrones * Hitman's Bodyguard * Can You Ever Forgive Me? (OscarNom) Star Wars * Nuremberg * The Other Bennet Sister (2026)
neutral · AI labelView post →I am forced to question these people's tether to reality when the movie was "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" about the forger Lee Israel losing literally everything, including her cat. Even if you're straight and don't understand how shitty the 90s were for queers, you've gotta warn people about the cat.
negative · AI labelView post →Today I went to see a movie for a benefit. The exact movie was kept as a “surprise,” but described as a NYC romp. It turned out to be “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” In which the cat dies and one of the main characters develops AIDS. What the actual fuck.
negative · AI labelView post →American writer and honking great dyke Lee Israel, whose criminal escapades as a letter forger were chronicled in the book and film “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, was BOTD in 1939. #leeisrael #canyoueverforgiveme #supergays #bornonthisday
neutral · AI labelView post →American playwright and screenwriter Jeff Whitty, best known as the co-creator of hit musical “Avenue Q” and #LeeIsrael biopic “Can You Ever Forgive Me”, was BOTD in 1971, turning 54 today. #jeffwhitty #supergays #bornonthisday #avenueq
neutral · AI labelView post →My sci-fi novella, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME, is available this month for free when you join the Liminal Fiction email list! LimFic.com is an inclusive library of spec fic titles. Sign up now for four excellent (and entirely free) sci fi ebooks! www.limfic.com/join-our-ema...
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(Canada) for C$4.99 Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin Genre: (Biography) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/can_you_ev...
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember having a similar reaction to 2018's CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? It was a well-crafted little movie of a type that used to get made more often - movies for adults, with no merch tie-ins.
positive · AI labelView post →Can You Ever Forgive Me? I Downloaded A Ghost.
neutral · AI labelView post →His character in this movie (Can You Ever Forgive Me) is basically just the “I’m new in town and it gets worse” bit 😭😂
neutral · AI labelView post →He was really good in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me’ (obviously not the only thing he’s been good in but too few have seen that!) www.imdb.com/title/tt4595...
positive · AI labelView post →Traitors giving us CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME 2 here. 😅 Giddy with E.Grant being one of them. This is gonna be gold. #CelebrityTraitors
neutral · AI labelView post →Richard K: well, 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' Richard E: no.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★★ review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/gpM54r)
positive · AI labelView post →The (movie) Can You Ever Forgive Me? 4K (iTunes)(UK) £4.99 (Biography) (iMDB) 7.3 Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin
neutral · AI labelView post →One more 🎂 to shout out. Headin just outside uh Cook County to Plainfield IL, Happy 🎂 to Melissa McCarthy! Melissa is an award winnin comedian/actress with 2 Emmys, 1 for da #Chicago set sitcom Mike&Molly & 1 for hostin SNL as well as Oscar noms for da films Bridesmaids & Can You Ever Forgive Me?
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished this one watching “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” What a fucking movie
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve always liked him, but totally fell in love with him after seeing his ridiculously thrilled reaction to being nominated for an Oscar for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
neutral · AI labelView post →I forget the exact date but it was around Can You Ever Forgive Me which…an asshole and petty thing to do or trying to capitalize on the awards nod? Who knows.
neutral · AI labelView post →David Yarnell, ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Producer, Dies at 96 https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/2026/film/news/david-yarnell-dead-can-you-ever-forgive-me-producer-1236650107/
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Can You Ever Forgive Me? 4K (iTunes)(UK) £4.99 (Biography) (iMDB) 7.2 Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin
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