“My Salinger Year” is a lovely, captivating film based on the memoir by Joanna Rakoff about her brief time working at the venerable Madison Avenue literary agency that represented iconic author J.D. Salinger.
Margaret Qualley (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” TV’s “Fosse/Verdon”) plays the endearingly driven Rakoff circa 1995 as she leaves graduate school and her boyfriend and moves east to the Big Apple (Montreal effectively doubles here) to become a writer, inspired by having sold two poems to the Paris Review.
The financial realities of living in pricey New York leads Joanna to find a job as the assistant to old school lit agent Margaret (Sigourney Weaver), a brusque, humorless sort who consigns her new hire to such mundane tasks as typing dictation and answering Salinger’s passionate fan mail with dismissive form letters.
Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver star in 'My Salinger Year,' Philippe Falardeau's adaptation of Joanna Rakoff's novel set in the 1990s New York literary world.
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David Friend March 01, 2021 - 8:32 AM
TORONTO - Disney Plus is introducing viewers to its older sibling: a new streaming hub named Star.
After establishing itself as the family-friendly home to Disney, Pixar and Marvel movies, the Disney Plus platform is opening the gates to a dedicated space for more grown-up tastes.
Within its existing platform, more than 150 TV series and 500 movies will be available to Canadians on Star s Tuesday launch date â but it comes with a catch.
Some buzzy titles from Disney-owned U.S. streaming platform Hulu are still missing, and you can t subscribe to Star without being signed up for Disney Plus.