Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella |
| Director |
Marielle Heller |
| Screenplay | Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty |
| Music | Nate Heller |
| Cinematography | Brandon Trost |
| Editing | Anne McCabe |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Archer Gray, Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Frequent strong use of strong language in a swearing context and not disapproved of but justified by context of the biography and true story of the main character’s criminal activities. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Infrequent low impact verbally referenced violence and was off screen. |
| Prejudice | Infrequent low impact language of prejudice in a form of gender and sexual orientation. |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | Complex and mature themes with moderate impact having some elements with strong impact. Themes of tension between friends after betrayal, controversial gay relationship dynamics, friendship, family, death, coping with the loss of loved pat, alcoholism, enforcement of legal justice system, mourning and in pain due to loss, depressed, loneliness and devastated single, stealing valuable artefacts, impersonating famous writers, resorting to desperate measures, strained relationship, addicts rehabilitation programme as a means to decrease the heavy sentence, court case proceedings that influenced the convicted to confess, plead guilt during trial, less severe sentence due to confessing the truth, aggressive behaviour, apologetic and asking for forgiveness, regretting and adopting acceptable ways of making a living, for the love of the mother, reconciliation and reconsidering actions , dismissed from employment due to alcohol addiction within a biography context. There is a sense of threat which may be disturbing upsetting and distressing to any children fewer than 16 because of its criminal activities and they are also not emotionally, cognitively and morally matured enough to contextualise the shocking content. The disturbing scenes of multiple forgery of letters of famous writers and stealing valuable artefacts that are of a sophisticated in nature can easily evoke emotional and psychological discomfort with moral harm due to the normal way that crude language is used. It can also send a wrong message to young impressionable viewers that you can use crude language without consequences and end up adopting it as part of their daily speech. Noted themes with moderate impact with some classifiable elements that are of strong impact may be ambiguous and disturbing as it is beyond their comprehension and tolerance levels and they are also not morally developed to make appropriate choices that are within the societal acceptable standards. |
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| R: Restricted | Rated R for language including some sexual references, and brief drug use |
| Runtime | 106 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 15 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| 24.com Jake Coyle  Can You Ever Forgive Me? has justly won praise as one of McCarthy's best and most dramatic performances. | 15 |  |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy Engaging from start to finish. | 14 | |
| Metacritic.com 48 critics | 17 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 214 critics | 16 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Deftly directed and laced with dark wit, Can You Ever Forgive Me? proves a compelling showcase for deeply affecting work from Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy. | 20 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 16 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Michael Ordona Wry, painful fact-based comedy has language, drinking. | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 43 users | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 1555 users | 15 | |
| IMDB 3430 Netizens | 15 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter | 17 | |
Average .. 79% | 16 | |