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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Director:
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Spike Jonze
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Actors:
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Cara Seymour,
Jay Tavare,
Litefoot,
Roger Willie,
Nicolas Cage,
Tilda Swinton,
Meryl Streep,
Chris Cooper,
Jim Beaver,
Doug Jones,
Stephen Tobolowsky,
Gary Farmer,
Peter Jason,
Gregory Itzin,
Curtis Hanson
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(8.5/10)110.5
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Plot Summary:
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Following up their acclaimed debut, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and maestro Thwart Jonze are repudiate to metaphysical moviemaking with ADAPTATION. The film stars Nicolas Cage as both Charlie Kaufman and his fictionalised interchangeable matching brother Donald. While the exuberant Donald freeloads off his sibling and works on a serial-iceman talking picture script, Charlie is tormented via both his own army of neuroses and his unfamiliar project, adapting Susan Orlean's book THE ORCHID THIEF into a screenplay. As Charlie struggles to shape the nonfiction novel into a motion picture, he begins writing himself into the Edda of Orlean (Meryl Streep), a sad-eyed journalist, and her subject, renegade Florida bloom expert John Laroche (Chris Cooper). The resulting tale extends far beyond the scope of the lyrics, stretching from Hollywood to Contemporary York to...Hollywood four billion years ago.
... Equally as inventive as BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, Adjusting revels in its gloriously absurd premise. Kaufman and Jonze skillfully sidestep the pitfalls of such a feasibly self-indulgent chuck, creating a multilayered film that focuses on the writing transform as wholly as the nature of looker, the beauty of nature, and dozens of other significant themes. Crate makes a stunning reimbursement to pre-Bruckheimer form in the roles of the Kaufman brothers, giving their equivalent appearances down to the ground different personalities and making them believable to boot. In the intervening time, the consistently distinguished Streep and the time again underrated Cooper are perfectly matched as Orlean and Laroche. Staid the less central roles are played by famed actors--Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Ron Livingston appear as supporting characters. Careening wildly between the uproarious, the amusing, and the poignant, Kaufman and Jonze's Reworking is another fine example of their bravura yet unfeigned make of cinema.
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Adaptation.
The talent behind Being John Malkovich create another comic meta-movie, this time about writer's block. Nicolas Cage plays twin brothers, Charlie and Donald Kaufman, who have very different approaches to screenwriting
Faced with the arduous task of adapting Susan Orlean's book on flowers, 'The Orchid Thief', screenwriter Charlie Kaufman struggles to fashion a truthful treatment of the material until he hits upon the age-old writer's reaction to writer's block: I know, I'll put myself into the story, and make the story about my difficulty to tell the story! This is essentially a summary of what happens in Adaptation, as well as what happened in reality.
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A rich, charmingly self-aware, always amusing, often hilarious, and sometimes frustrating movie - about a screenplay embedded within a screenplay, and reality and fiction layered within each other. Fantastic performances from Cage (in both his roles), Streep and especially that toothless guy whose name I don't remember.
Adaptation.
Subtle, inventive, elfish movie involving a blocked novelist demanding unconfined sundry approaches to intractable material before relying on Hollywood clich?s to get him owing to to the end; it's much funnier than it sounds, aided past some stylish direction and expertly
Adaptation.
"...Mr. Cage and Mr. Jonze piece a unexpected, showman sensibility, and the two of them -- or should I say the three of them? -- reach off one of the most awesome technical stunts in just out cloud history..."
Adaptation.
"...[Featuring] Nicolas Pen in his lightest, loosest, best performance since MOONSTRUCK....ADAPTATION demonstrates that Kaufman, the bona fide Charlie Kaufman, has a rare and extremely uncanny bent....The guy is high jinks..."
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