My Salinger Year (2020)

Releasing at December 25, 2020 in theaters

Drama

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.

It primiered at February 20, 2020 on Berlin International Film Festival.

Director: Philippe Falardeau

Writers: Philippe Falardeau, Joanna Smith Rakoff (novel)

Stars: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake, Brían F. O’Byrne, Colm Feore, Théodore Pellerin

►Cast

Margaret Qualley	►	Joanna
Sigourney Weaver	►	Margaret
Douglas Booth	►	Don
Seána Kerslake	►	Jenny
Brían F. O’Byrne	►	Hugh
Colm Feore	►	Daniel
Théodore Pellerin	►	Boy from Winston-Salem
Yanic Truesdale	►	Max
Hamza Haq	►	Karl
Leni Parker	►	Pam
Ellen David	►	Placement Agent
Romane Denis	►	High school girl
Tim Post	►	J.D. Salinger
Gavin Drea	►	Mark
Matt Holland	►	Clifford Bradbury
Xiao Sun	►	Lisa
Gillian Doria	►	Judy Blume
Maud Druine	►	Anh
Alexandre Dubois	►	New Yorker Guy 1
Jonathan Dubsky	►	Brett
Elana Dunkelman	►	Office Assistant
Samantha Hodhod	►	Assistant #1
Arthur Holden	►	Dean
Hayley Kezber	►	Rachel Cusk
Christine Lan	►	Vietnamese Girl
Carlo Mestroni	►	Doorman
Mariya Monakhova	►	Polish woman
Andres Romo Salido	►	Mexican Worker
Sylvia Stewart	►	New Yorker Receptionist

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