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Adaptation.

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2002
1h 55m
English
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
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Cast

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Nicolas Cage
Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
Meryl Streep
Susan Orlean
Chris Cooper
John Laroche
Tilda Swinton
Valerie Thomas
Jay Tavare
Matthew Osceola
Litefoot
Russell
Roger Willie
Jim Beaver
Ranger Tony
Cara Seymour
Amelia Kavan
Doug Jones
Augustus Margary
Gary Farmer
Buster Baxley
Peter Jason
Defense Attorney
Gregory Itzin
Prosecutor
Curtis Hanson
Orlean's Husband
Agnes NaDene Baddoo
Orlean Dinner Guest
Paul Fortune
Orlean Dinner Guest
Paul Jasmin
Orlean Dinner Guest
Lisa Love
Orlean Dinner Guest
Wendy Mogel
Orlean Dinner Guest
David O Russell
Orlean Dinner Guest
Judy Greer
Alice the Waitress
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Caroline Cunningham
Bob Stephenson
Bob Yerkes
Charles Darwin
Lynn Court
Laroche’s Dad
Directed By: Spike Jonze
Written By: Charlie Kaufman (Screenplay), Susan Orlean (Novel)

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CatyAlexandre says...
12 years ago
Incredible! Writting a film about yourself writting a film!? Charlie Kaufman is a genius! Certainly one of the most original screenwriters! All of the actors gave fantastic performances. Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper are great but Nicolas Cage shines! That man just needs find more good stories and characters to star in! It's so crazy, so clever and beautiful at the same time. I'm getting some trouble about what to write more about this film without spoiling much. If you haven't seen it yet do it!
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Lucas_Marx says...
4 years ago
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I came to write that the end was off but thinking about It, it started getting weird right after his brother arrived at NY and started helping him with the end. As Donald's said his genre was Thriller, só the movie did a turn and started with a lot of things that we didnt saw comming like spying on Susan, the affair, car chasing, drug using, deaths and so on. I think It was meant to be interpreted that way, If so I'll give It a 9/10
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wolfkin says...
5 years ago
plodding and dull but I was a kid at the time. There's a lot I probably didn't get back then.
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drjoyce says...
6 years ago
Incredible movie. I really wish those that think of low budget, netflix 'B' movies when they see Nicolas Cages name would see this film. He still had it, he still has it, and always will have it. He just needs someone like Spike Jonze, and a vessel like Charlie Kaufman to bring it out.
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CinemaSerf
3 years ago
When you watch some of Nicolas Cage's more recent stuff you do wonder how on earth he ever became a star in the first place. Well, this is one of the films that reminds us why. He is a struggling screenwriter ("Charlie") charged with adapting a novel about orchids written by "Susan Orlean" (Meryl St More
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Gimly
4 years ago
I'm reacting the way the world does to movies about making movies about making movies. I mean come on, Charlie Kaufman, some of us have work in the morning, damn.

_Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._
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