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Adaptation.
A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald.… Read more
87% (515,185)
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A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald.… Read more
87% (515,185)
Where to watch: Philo
2002 · 1h 55m · ★ 87% (515K)
From the creator of Being John Malkovich, comes the story about the creator of Being John Malkovich.
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
Charlie Kaufman is 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 and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.
Spike Jonze
Columbia Pictures, Propaganda Films, Good Machine, Intermedia, Beverly Detroit Studios, Clinica Estetico
Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones, Gary Farmer, Peter Jason, Gregory Itzin, Curtis Hanson, Agnes NaDene Baddoo, Paul Fortune, Paul Jasmin, Lisa Love, Wendy Mogel, David O. Russell
Philo, AMC+, Sundance Now