Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) is Marielle Heller's crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Early-1990s New York. Once-published biographer Lee Israel has run out of work, money and goodwill, with little company beyond her cat and a bottle.

Cornered, she hits on a scam: she taps out witty letters on period typewriters, signs them as long-dead writers and wits like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward, and sells the forgeries to collectors. They buy it, because Lee captures a borrowed voice far better than her own. Into her life drifts Jack Hock, a charming drunk and small-time crook who becomes her accomplice. Melissa McCarthy plays the prickly recluse with none of her usual comic gloss, and Richard E. Grant is her bright, reckless opposite.

Built from Israel's own memoir, the film refuses to soften her — a caustic, difficult woman you root for anyway. It picked up three Oscar nominations, including nods for both leads. Stream Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) online on iFILM.