Synopsis
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
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Cast
- Kristen StewartSavannah Knoop
- Laura DernLaura Albert
- Diane KrugerEva
- Jim SturgessGeoffrey Knoop
- Courtney LoveSasha
- Kelvin Harrison Jr.Sean
- James JaggerBen
- Eric PlamondonGaspard
- Craig HaasEnnio
- Adam HurtigDarren
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
JT LeRoy may have been an elaborate fib, but Kelly finds a genuine pearl of wisdom in the web of deception. - 75
The Film Stage
Jeremiah is bouncy and pleasing, if overfamiliar and never as insightful as one would hope. - 75
IndieWire
While Kelly’s faithful dramatization doesn’t offer a lot of fresh insights, and fizzles by the end, it remains an involving snapshot of two women grappling with their private and public personas until they collide. - 67
The A.V. Club
This story remains fascinating, but the perspective here feels skewed. - 60
Screen Daily
There’s nothing about this watchable but somewhat workmanlike dramatisation of the literary fraud behind author ‘JT LeRoy’ which is anywhere near as extreme as the story on which it is based. But Justin Kelly’s low key directing choices allow the two very fine central performances to take centre stage. - 60
CineVue
The film’s biggest weakness is its reluctance to interrogate the personas of its supporting characters. - 60
TheWrap
Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy is a lukewarm examination of what might have been a hot topic — and that means it risks being overshadowed by the real-life soap opera playing out around it. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
For a movie about what’s going on under the elaborately staged surface, it’s pretty much all surface, right down to its shallow observations about gender fluidity, queer identity and the creative freedom of the alternate persona.
