A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
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Justin Kelly, Savannah Knoop (memoir) | 1 more credit »
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The film opens with Savannah (Kristen Stewart) being fetched from the airport by her brother-in-law. Slowly but surely the film introduces its characters including Laura Albert.
Laura Albert (Laura Dern) writes tough, insightful fiction under a pseudonym, JT LeRoy. The full name of the pseudonym is Jeremy Terminator Leroy, which incidentally is also the original title of the film that served as the Closing Night Gala last last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
JT is not just a pen name but a whole persona, a teenage boy from West Virginia living a dangerous life as a truck stop sex…
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