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.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

7.3K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 2 wins & 13 nominations total

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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)

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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

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7/10

Those tiny little moments

A heartwarming story about someone trying to understand their inner self. This feels like real life with the daily struggles, the ups and downs, the sadness, the constant search for happiness and those tiny little moments when you realize who you are and what you want. Those moments when everything makes sense and you feel in control. I live for those moments.