Melissa McCarthy plays a counterfeiter in The Original Copy, based on a true story, which premiered on Paradise 3.
Lee is a struggling writer. His books don’t sell and debts continue to pile up. So when she finds a lost letter in a library book, Lee has an idea that will push her to new heights she’s never crossed before and could cost her dearly. Here is the plot original copyWill you ever forgive me in the original language. Director Marielle HellerThe film is based on the memoirs of N. Will you ever forgive me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger From Lee Israelwell-known biographer and forger who disappeared in 2014. Interpreting it on the big screen is Melissa McCarthy. The drama will air tonight on Monday, August 28, 2023 on Prime TV. Paradise 3.
Original copy, film with Melissa McCarthy premiered on Rai 3.
Install in New York in the 90s, the film tells the story of a writer who has fallen into ruin. Lee Israel is a midlife crisis woman whose career has gone downhill. Her books aren’t selling the way they used to, and she needs to earn money to pay rent and her cat’s medical bills. In desperation, Lee one day finds a letter from a missing author and, in order to sell it, adds non-original written text, making it a fake. And this is just the beginning. Realizing that this could be the way out, Lee continues down that path, realizing that this could be the way out. fake letters. When he meets an ex-con in a bar, he expands his plan and decides to steal the real letters from the archives to sell them. A risky game that would later be revealed, which also involves the FBI.
World premiere in Telluride Film Festival in 2018 and shortly thereafter also all Toronto International Film FestivalThe original copy hit theaters in Italy in February 2019. In the cast, in addition to Melissa McCarthy playing the main character, we also find Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella and Anna Dever Smith. The film was nominated for three Oscars and two Golden Globes. Some interest in the film? In the beginning, before Melissa McCarthy, Julianne Moore Lee Israel praised her as a performer. It was then that her husband Ben Falcone, already present in the cast at the time, suggested Melissa McCarthy as the main character.