My Salinger Year (2020)

My Salinger Year (2020)

 Director: Philippe Falardeau
Writers: Philippe Falardeau, Joanna Smith Rakoff (based on the book by) (as Joanna Rakoff)
Stars: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth |
 Plot Keywords: writer
Taglines: The first job is always a great adventure.
Genres: Drama
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for language and some sexual references |
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 Official Sites: Official site | producer's official website
Country: Canada | Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: 5 March 2021 (USA)
Also Known As: My Salinger Year
Filming Locations: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA: $28,851, 7 March 2021
Gross USA: $54,730
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $584,061
Company Credits
Production Co: micro_scope, Parallel Film Productions
Technical Specs
Runtime: 101 min
Color: Color
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.
Soundtracks
Tonight
Performed by Sibylle Baier
Written by Sibylle Baier
Published by Soultube Music
Courtesy of Orange Twin Records  

My Salinger Year (2020)

 Summaries

    A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

    In New York City's late nineties, a young aspiring writer lands a day-job at J.D. Salinger's literary agency. While her eccentric and old-fashioned boss tasks her to process Salinger's voluminous fan mail, she struggles to find her own voice.
    —micro_scope

    Brimming with optimism, the young college student, aspiring writer, and poet, Joanna Smith Rakoff, arrives in mid-90s New York City after landing a temporary job as an assistant at stern Margaret's prestigious literary agency. Entrusted with the unglamorous task of dealing with fan letters, Joanna is utterly unaware, however, that the agency represents the interests of literary giants, such as Dylan Thomas and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to name a few, and the office's most prominent client: the notoriously reclusive writer, J.D. Salinger. But, more than anything in the world, bright-eyed Joanna wants to extraordinary. Can she learn a thing or two about life and writing from the famous author of "The Catcher in the Rye"?
    —Nick Riganas