Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Q&A with Melissa McCarthy
HAMMER | 7:30 p.m., Hammer Museum
Down-and-out celebrity biographer and cantankerous New Yorker Lee Isarel (expertly played by Melissa McCarthy) is broke. When her beloved cat becomes ill and she can't pay the medical bills, she turns to forging and selling letters by literary luminaries and finds she's quite good at it—as Lee puts it, she's a better Dorothy Parker than Dorothy Parker. Her drunken camaraderie with her lone friend Jack Hock (an absolutely charming Richard E. Grant) is the beating heart of this quietly queer film. Courtesy of Fox Searchlight. (Can You Ever Forgive Me? 2018. USA. Directed by Marielle Heller. 106 min.)
A discussion with actor Melissa McCarthy follows the screening.
This event is presented by the Hammer Museum at UCLA.
Event Date: Monday, Dec. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum
Price: Free
The Hammer is located at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards in Westwood Village, three blocks east of the 405 freeway’s Wilshire exit.
Parking is available under the museum.
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