Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Abrasive New York alcoholic Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is a washed up writer of biographies. Her agent (Jane Curtin) tells her she needs to write in her own voice and that her terrible personality is an impediment to her career. 

In an early scene, she's fired from a job for swearing at her boss when he asks her not to drink at her desk. 

Desperate for money, she starts forging witty letters from such people as Dorothy Parker and Noel Coward. She sells them to dealers who market them to collectors. 

There've been murders and robberies inspired by movies. I've mentioned the two morons in this state who killed a couple on vacation so they could flee to Mexico and be like Dick Hickock and Perry Smith in In Cold Blood. But Lee Israel committed a perfectly reasonable, profitable string of crimes and I'll bet she doesn't get a single copycat. 

It seems natural that she lived in New York in part because it's hard to imagine someone like her anywhere else. I thought writers usually flocked to small, economically depressed communities with a low cost of living. The documentary Murder Among the Mormons showed that document forgery is a thing you can do lots of places.