My Salinger Year

Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley star in this drama based on Joanna Rakoff’s bestselling memoir about her experiences at a New York literary agency in the 90s. From the director of Monsieur Lazhar.

Idealistic Joanna (Qualley) impulsively quits graduate school and arrives in New York to pursue her dream of becoming a published poet. She gets her foot in the door, becoming an assistant to Margaret (Weaver), a brusque and old-fashioned literary agent. The agency’s most famous client is the notoriously reclusive writer J.D. Salinger, and Joanna’s principal responsibility is to process the voluminous fan mail that arrives for him daily from readers around the world.

Her strict instructions are to reply with one of the office’s impersonal, pre-formulated responses, and destroy the letters, but she cannot help feeling deeply affected by some of the more heartfelt correspondence, and secretly starts answering them personally.

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