My Salinger Year

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My Salinger Year

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2021,

1h 41m,

Drama

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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-panelled 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.

Pamela Hutchinson

Sight & Sound

May 28, 2026

My Salinger Year sidesteps the slush pile and offers a thoughtful study of a young woman realizing she must shed her responsibilities to other writers in order to put her own words on the page.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

May 24, 2021

You can't help comparing it to The Devil Wears Prada, which is sharper and funnier and more bitter...but it's the very definition of a film that goes down nicely, there are better things it can be but worse things too...

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

May 23, 2021

3/5

Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley are two of the juiciest actresses in America and, thanks to them, this period drama is never less than tantalising.

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Geoffrey Macnab

iNews.co.uk

Jan 16, 2025

2/5

This literary drama is too bland and nostalgic to have much emotional impact.

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Rachael Mead

InDaily

Feb 17, 2023

Sigourney Weaver steals the limelight in this beautifully shot adaptation of Joanna Rakoff’s best-selling memoir.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 17, 2022

3/5

“My Salinger Year” is a charming and earnest drama that tells its story with a warm sincerity but muted emotions.

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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-panelled 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.

Director: Philippe Falardeau
Producer: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw
Screenwriter: Philippe Falardeau
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: Parallel Film Productions Ltd.
Rating: R (Some Sexual References|Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 5, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 5, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.0K
Runtime: 1h 41m

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