New York in the 90s: After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna (Margaret Qualley) gets hired as an assistant to Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent of J. D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-panelled office – where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze off after three-martini lunches – and her nights in a sink-less 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.
- Director: Philippe Falardeau
- Country: Canada | Ireland
- Genre: Drama
- Year: 2021
- Run Time: 01:41:00
- imdb Score: 5.9/10 (351 votes)
- Language: English
- Rating: Not Rated
- Cast: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake
Jason Di Rosso - ABC NEWS
"A sweet, perfectly agreeable affair that, if nothing else, confirmed the star presence of Margaret Qualley and gave us Sigourney Weaver in some seriously delicious '90s garb."
Zhuo-Ning Su - AWARDS DAILY
"But really it's a movie, essentially familiar in structure and tone, that owes everything to a pair of knockout performances. It's a casting triumph."
Kevin Maher - TIMES
Berlin Int'l Film Festival 2020
Film by the Sea Film Festival 2020
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