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Film Description
Cynical writer Charlie Kaufmann has a screenplay to turn in, but while his easy-going writer brother can turn out scripts with ease, he's got writer's block. Cage plays both roles in another well-regarded movie from the team that produced 'Being John Malkovich'.
Film Information
| Director | Spike Jonze | ||||
| Starring | Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
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| Genre | Contemporary Film
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| Country | USA | Language | ENGLISH | Year | 2002 |
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| Certificate | 15 | Length | 114 mins | Label | COL-T | ||
| Cat No | CDR32707 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | Widescreen | ||||
| Subtitles | English, Hindi, Italian . | ||||||
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Review by Matt Buckland on 30th June 2003
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze have created a conundrum of a film, full of ideas within ideas and questions about questions.
Adaptation is the story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, a confused individual overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration and self-loathing as he tries to write a screenplay of the non-fiction book 'The Orchid Thief'. His predicament is further confounded by the career ambitions of his overly enthusiastic, freeloading twin brother Donald.
This is the cinematic equivalent of Russian dolls as you discover that his adaptation of the book is the very film you are watching, a film about a film, a self-referential labyrinth. The film opens on the set of the last Jonze/Kaufman collaboration Being John Malkovich, and we see John Malkovich playing himself chastising a fictitious Kaufman played by Nicolas Cage.
Like Being John Malkovich before it, Adaptation is an impressive experiment and a far cry from regular Hollywood output. Kaufman uses this film to highlight his own flawed character and inadequacies, and in doing so exposes the struggle of bringing a script to the screen. The film is surely the most creative trick of the year and grimly funny throughout, an act of pure audacity by its creators.
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Article - "The Music Sounds Better With You"
by Steve Turner
Wednesday 7th January 2004
Over the past decade, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham have successfully revolutionised the genre of the music video from banal pop promos to outlandish and inspirational short films.
Spike Jonze has already proved his unique sense of humour w... View article in full
Article - "Lost In Translation"
by Chris Jones
Monday 7th June 2004
Sofia Coppola's wonderful film Lost in Translation is one of the more interesting American films of recent years. A beautifully acted and observed mood piece with a perfectly integrated and carefully chosen music score, it's a movie that rewards it's audience ... View article in full
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