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Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Margaret Qualley
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Douglas Booth
  • Seána Kerslake
  • Colm Feore
  • Brian F. O'Byrne
  • Théodore Pellerin

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Metacritic

75
Mar 5, 2021

In the borderline trifling but consistently amusing and wry period piece My Salinger Year, Qualley has the opportunity to carry the story, and she delivers an effortlessly endearing performance in a literary adventure that plays like The Devil Wears Prada meets Can You Ever Forgive Me, only at lower stakes.

Metacritic review by Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
75
Mar 5, 2021

There are remarkable and rewarding moments in the film despite its lack of bite.

Thom Ernst
Original-Cin
50
Mar 3, 2021

My Salinger Year, which is basically The Devil Wears Prada set in the literary world, is a film that feels like it’s ready to take off at any moment, but stalls every time it tries to do anything.

Metacritic review by David Lewis
David Lewis
San Francisco Chronicle