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My Salinger Year

  • 2020
  • R
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
7.3K
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Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley in My Salinger Year (2020)
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-paneled 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.
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A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

  • Director
    • Philippe Falardeau
  • Writers
    • Philippe Falardeau
    • Joanna Smith Rakoff
    • Catherine Kidd
  • Stars
    • Margaret Qualley
    • Sigourney Weaver
    • Douglas Booth
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    • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    7.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Philippe Falardeau
    • Writers
      • Philippe Falardeau
      • Joanna Smith Rakoff
      • Catherine Kidd
    • Stars
      • Margaret Qualley
      • Sigourney Weaver
      • Douglas Booth
    • 67User reviews
    • 78Critic reviews
    • 50Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 13 nominations

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    Margaret Qualley
    Margaret Qualley
    • Joanna
    Sigourney Weaver
    Sigourney Weaver
    • Margaret
    Douglas Booth
    Douglas Booth
    • Don
    Seána Kerslake
    Seána Kerslake
    • Jenny
    Brían F. O'Byrne
    Brían F. O'Byrne
    • Hugh
    Colm Feore
    Colm Feore
    • Daniel
    Théodore Pellerin
    Théodore Pellerin
    • Boy from Winston-Salem
    Yanic Truesdale
    Yanic Truesdale
    • Max
    Hamza Haq
    Hamza Haq
    • Karl
    Leni Parker
    Leni Parker
    • Pam
    Ellen David
    Ellen David
    • Placement Agent
    Romane Denis
    Romane Denis
    • Girl Who Wants an A
    Tim Post
    Tim Post
    • J. D. Salinger
    Gavin Drea
    Gavin Drea
    • Mark
    Matt Holland
    Matt Holland
    • Clifford Bradbury
    Xiao Sun
    Xiao Sun
    • Lisa
    Andy Bradshaw
    • Veteran
    Christine Lan
    • Vietnamese Girl
    • Director
      • Philippe Falardeau
    • Writers
      • Philippe Falardeau
      • Joanna Smith Rakoff
      • Catherine Kidd
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Joanna Smith Rakoff: the movie's real life subject matter appears when Joanna visits The New Yorker and sees Max with a woman entering an elevator.
    • Goofs
      Joanna, referencing U.C. Berkeley, says she's like "a big cloud of East Coast irony haunting Southern California," but Berkeley is in Northern California.
    • Quotes

      Joanna: The job of an agent is to open up opportunities for their clients, but, when it came to Salinger, the logic was reversed. We had to shield him from the outside world, bolstering his reputation as a complicated recluse.

    • Connections
      References I Am Cuba (1964)
    • Soundtracks
      Everyday
      Performed by Tinsley Ellis
      Written by Bob De Pugh (as Bob DePugh) and Tinsley Ellis
      Published by De Pugh Music, Frozen Inca Music
      Courtesy of Alligator Records

    User reviews67

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    8/10

    Worth your patience

    This film starts off a bit slow and hard to follow until you start to feel you are back in that time of your life when you had your first notable job. The story unfolds and you start to care about the depth of the cast. The music accompanies the scenes nicely. The images of New York are always appreciated by me. This is a gentle movie for those who appreciate writers, books and agents.
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    • Release date
      • March 5, 2021 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • Ireland
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • My New York Year
    • Filming locations
      • Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Production companies
      • micro_scope
      • Parallel Film Productions
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $54,730
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $28,851
      • Mar 7, 2021
    • Gross worldwide
      • $957,592
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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