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Adaptation (2003)
Front Cover Actor
Nicolas Cage
Chris Cooper
Meryl Streep
Movie Details
Language English
Audience Rating R (Restricted)
Running Time 115 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
Twisty brilliance from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the team who created Being John Malkovich. Nicolas Cage returns to form with a funny, sad, and sneaky performance as Charlie Kaufman, a self-loathing screenwriter who has been hired to adapt Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief into a screenplay. Frustrated and infatuated by Orlean's elegant but plotless book (which is largely a rumination on flowers), Kaufman begins to write a screenplay about himself trying to write a screenplay about The Orchid Thief, all the while hounded by his twin brother Donald (Cage again), who's cheerfully writing the kind of formulaic action movie that Kaufman finds repugnant. By its conclusion, Adaptation is the most artistically ambitious, most utterly cynical, and most uncategorizable movie ever to come out of Hollywood. Also starring Meryl Streep (as Susan Orlean), Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, and Brian Cox; superb performances throughout. --Bret Fetzer
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 790
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
Product Details
Edition Superbit Collection
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 1.85:1
043396076013
Release Date 5/20/2003
Subtitles English; French
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
French Dolby Digital 5.1
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1