Adaptation
Adaptation
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Synopsis

Director Spike Jonze teams up with Being John Malkovich screenwriter Charlie Kaufman once again for this multilayered, metaphysical comedy about the screenwriting process. Nicholas Cage plays the neurotic Kaufman as he attempts to adapt author Susan Orlean's (Meryl Streep) book "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay. As Kaufman delves deeper and deeper into Orlean''s book, he becomes strangely intertwined with the author and her subject, orchid poacher John Laroche (Chris Cooper) and comes to question the nature of his work. This wholly original film features excellent performances by Cage (who also plays Kaufman''s brother Donald), Streep and Cooper, with each earning an Academy Award nomination for their respective roles. "What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times). Spike Jonze---USA---2002---114 mins.

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