My Salinger Year

[Available on various VOD platforms and played March 2 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Philippe Falardeau's well-acted, down-to-earth, factually inspired, coming-of-age, star-studded (Colm Feore, Douglas Booth, Brian F. O'Byrne, Leni Parker, and Seána Kerslake) 101-minute film based on Joanna Rakoff's 2014 bestselling memoir in which an ambitious, aspiring writer and poet (Margaret Qualley) leaves California and her boyfriend (Hamza Haq) for New York in 1995 and takes a job as a clerical assistant to a nonsense literary agent (Sigourney Weaver) at a publishing house whose primary client is famous, reclusive writer J. D. Salinger (Tim Post).
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