Movie Night: My Salinger Year

My Salinger Year (2020)

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 7PM

Chatham Capitol Theatre

Admission: $5 at the door or flash your 2020 or 2021 pass

Please reserve your seats in advance at www.chathamcapitoltheatre.com

Rating: R | Drama

Runtime: 1h 41min

Stars: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Colm Feore

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.