My Salinger Year

The Resource My Salinger Year
Label
My Salinger Year
Statement of responsibility
IFC Films, Memento Films International and Mongrel Media present a Micro_Scope production with Parallel Films ; produced by Luc Déry, Kim McCraw ; written and directed by Philippe Falardeau
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Subject
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Language
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
  • eng
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
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Sara Mishara ; editor, Mary Finlay ; original score, Martin Léon
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: R; for language and some sexual references
Language note
English dialogue; Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); English audio descriptive track
LC call number
PN1997.2
LC item number
.M9 2021
PerformerNote
Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake, Théodore Pellerin, Yanic Truesdale, Hamza Haq, Ellen David, Leni Parker, Romane Denis, Tim Post, Gavin Drea, Matt Holland, Colm Feore, Brían F. O'Byrne
Runtime
101
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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