- Drama
- 101 min
- R
Rotten Tomatoes71%Metacritic50IMDb6.5
The true story of a literary education.
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
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Prestige, classical in form, contemplative and intimate.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Aug 20221/10
J.D. Salinger didn’t write to be read – or seen. The author of The Catcher in the Rye stopped publishing in 1965 – but continued writing until his death 45 years later –, and long before that he had made up his mind to refuse to allow film adaptations of his work (a non-acceptance that has miraculously survived him). As a result, the lazy and the uncreative have had to find alternative avenues for profiting from Salinger's work. The most recent example of this is My Salinger Year, a drama written and directed by Philippe Falardeau, based on Joanna Rakoff's memoir of the same name. In 1995, Joanna (Margaret Qualley), an aspiring writer and poet, moves to New York, where she gets a job at one of New York's oldest literary agencies. Unbeknownst to Joanna, the agency looks after the interests of notoriously reclusive writer J. D. Salinger (additionally, she moves into an apartment with her new boyfriend, who is writing a novel, which, when finished, fits perfectly inside a thin manila envelope; I’d venture that perhaps the envelope contains a flash drive with the book in it, but this is the mid-90s, after all). Joanna's duties include responding to Salinger's voluminous fan mail. Accor
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Cast
- Margaret QualleyJoanna
- Sigourney WeaverMargaret
- Douglas BoothDon
- Seána KerslakeJenny
- Brían F. O'ByrneHugh
- Colm FeoreDaniel
- Théodore PellerinBoy From Winston-Salem
- Yanic TruesdaleMax
- Hamza HaqKarl
- Leni ParkerPam
Crew
- Philippe FalardeauDirector
- Philippe FalardeauScreenplay
- Sara MisharaDirector of Photography
- Martin LéonOriginal Music Composer
- Mary FinlayEditor
- Kim McCrawProducer
- Luc DéryProducer
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