My Salinger Year
Sunday, 27 February 2022
Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre
155 Darling St Dubbo, NSW, 2830
02 6801 4378
1.30PM – Doors open
2.00PM – My Salinger Year
Logline: While working for literary agent Phyllis Westberg, aspiring writer Joanna Rakoff receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.
The story: 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. – Rotten Tomatoes
Starring: Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver
Running Time: 101 min
Genre: Drama/comedy
Rating: M
Language: English