Overview:
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.| Status: | Released (2018-10-19) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 3 Oscars. 54 wins & 102 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $8,803,865 |
| Screen: | Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty |
| Productions: | Archer Gray |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 55536: Melissa McCarthy - Lee Israel
- 20766: Richard E. Grant - Jack Hock
- 178614: Dolly Wells - Anna
- 170820: Ben Falcone - Alan Schmidt
- 1292449: Gregory Korostishevsky - Andrei
- 58184: Jane Curtin - Marjorie
- 57093: Stephen Spinella - Paul
Crews
- 56539: Nicole Holofcener - Screenplay - Writing
- 1634560: Lee Israel - Book - Writing
- 177532: Marielle Heller - Director - Directing
- 2074412: Mateo Márquez - Digital Intermediate Assistant - Editing
- 1320551: Ma Kalaadevi Ananda - Makeup Department Head - Costume & Make-Up
- 1399970: Glenfield Payne - Sound Effects Editor - Sound
- 6506: Arjun Bhasin - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
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Reviews
Rodney Wollam
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Lee Israel was selfish, cold, sad, and disreputable. She was also really fun to know. Sookie nails this one.
Continue reading ->Gimly
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Mad props to Melissa McCarthy for turning it around with this after _Happytime Murders_ and _Life of the Party_. Actually after basically every single thing I've seen her in up until this point. I honestly can't think of a single role I've liked her in. Until Lee Israel of course, be ....
Continue reading ->Stephen Campbell
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**_Unexpectedly emotional, with a towering central performance_** > _I had never known anything but up in my career, had never received even one of those formatted no-thank-you slips that successful writers look back upon with triumphant jocularity. And I regarded with pity and di ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Melissa McCarthy is outstanding in this retrospective dealing with the more "creative" aspects of the later career of acclaimed author Lee Israel. She genuinely elicits sympathy for the emptiness in, and sadness of, her life that led her to create a string of forgeries that led the l ....
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