STEP 1: To watch this FREE screening, click the Register button above to "Pre-order" the film.
STEP 2: The first time you register for a screening with Movies for Grownups on EVENTIVE, you will be asked to create an account. Accounts are free, and you will be asked to provide your first and last names, your email, and to create a password. If you’ve previously attended a film on EVENTIVE, you may not need to log in – the system will remember you when you click “Register”.
STEP 3: After logging in, continue to click "Pre-order" until you receive a message that you have successfully "pre-ordered" the movie.
STEP 4: Once you have pre-ordered (registered) successfully, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions and a link to access the film. You will also get reminder emails on the day of the screening, at noon and then 10 minutes before the movie starts. Remember, this film is only available at the scheduled day and time. It is NOT available On Demand.
Still have questions? Email moviesforgrownups@aarp.org.
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.
- Year2020
- Runtime1:41
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- RatingR
- NoteMy Salinger Year; by Joanna Rakoff
- DirectorPhilippe Falardeau
- CastSigourney Weaver, Margaret Qualley, Douglas Booth
STEP 1: To watch this FREE screening, click the Register button above to "Pre-order" the film.
STEP 2: The first time you register for a screening with Movies for Grownups on EVENTIVE, you will be asked to create an account. Accounts are free, and you will be asked to provide your first and last names, your email, and to create a password. If you’ve previously attended a film on EVENTIVE, you may not need to log in – the system will remember you when you click “Register”.
STEP 3: After logging in, continue to click "Pre-order" until you receive a message that you have successfully "pre-ordered" the movie.
STEP 4: Once you have pre-ordered (registered) successfully, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions and a link to access the film. You will also get reminder emails on the day of the screening, at noon and then 10 minutes before the movie starts. Remember, this film is only available at the scheduled day and time. It is NOT available On Demand.
Still have questions? Email moviesforgrownups@aarp.org.
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.
- Year2020
- Runtime1:41
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- RatingR
- NoteMy Salinger Year; by Joanna Rakoff
- DirectorPhilippe Falardeau
- CastSigourney Weaver, Margaret Qualley, Douglas Booth