Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book.
DVD Release Date: May 20, 2003
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September 3, 2009Its part adaptation and part reconstruction of a fabricated documentary. Hard to put into words really, that said though, its absolutely brilliant and original. It's one big metaphor really, excellently realised. Including Charlie Kaufman as a character was just brilliant, you co...( read more)
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March 22, 2009Spike Jonze once again delivers exactly what you'd expect from Spike Jonze--the unexpected. There's a lot to chew on in this movie. This movie goes to show that Nicholas Cage is a good actor when he's in a movie that doesn't suck. Regardless, Cage looks like my old, retarded uncl...( read more)
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March 19, 2009I enjoyed it, but sometimes I thought they were overdoing the self-referntiality.
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January 29, 2009I love all of the metaphors for hitting the wall on a difficult writing assignment. The film itself is an excuse for not totally doing the job assigned. It's quite hilarious when you keep that in the back of your mind while watching.
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November 21, 2009Because I spent all my review of BJM talking about the movie, I will use this one to tell my story with Kaufman. When I was really into movies I came across this strange poster with multiple John Malkovich heads and I decided to rent it. I loved it but it was not my favorite movi...( read more)
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November 7, 2009Wow, a Nic Cage film I actually like. A fantastic shooting script by CK and great performances all around - Spike Jonze directs with solid confidence. It's a great deconstruction of a script, and for a scriptwriter it was especially entertaining to watch. If you don't keep up it ...( read more)
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November 4, 2009jonze-kaufman has done it again, after they shocked us with being john malkovich, one of the best film ever imo, they made this great mind-blowing movie..
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Critic Reviews
December 20, 2002
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
December 20, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Gradually the movie's one joke plays out, and Charlie's doubts about inserting himself into his own screenplay prove to be well-founded. full review
December 20, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is. full review
December 7, 2002
David Edelstein, Slate
Compare Adaptation to Woody Allen's lame Hollywood Ending, and you can see that Kaufman is Allen's true successor--formed by Allen but primed to carry the torch a little farther into the swamp of his ... full review
December 6, 2002
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Mr. Cage and Mr. Jonze share a casual, daredevil sensibility, and the two of them -- or should I say the three of them? -- pull off one of the most amazing technical stunts in recent film history. full review
November 20, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Few scripts toss more challenging balls in the air, and Jonze juggles them all with artful, light-stepping ease. It's magic. full review
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