My Salinger year / IFC Films, Memento Films International and Mongrel Media present ; a micro_scope production with Parallel Films ; produced by produced by Luc D�ery, Kim McCraw ; written and directed by Philippe Falardeau.
Director of photography, Sara Mishara; editor, Mary Finlay. Based on the book My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff. Originally released as a motion picture in 2020. Wide screen (1.85:1). Special features: trailer. Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seana Kerslake, Brian F. O'byrne, Colm Feore, Theodore Pellerin, Yanic Truesdale, Leni Parker, Ellen David, Tim Post, Gavin Drea.
Summary:
"After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office ... and her nights in a Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend. Joanna's main task is processing Salinger's voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency's impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses. The results are both humorous and moving as Joanna, while using the great writer's voice, begins to discover her own"--Container.
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