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Release Date
• USA: Dec 6, 2002
• UK: 28 Feb 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 20, 2003
Budget $19,000,000
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Adaptation. Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, sexuality, some drug use and violent images.
Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes
Country USA
Studio Clinica Estetica
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Other Titles
• Adaptation.
• Adaptation
• The Orchid Thief (2002)
• Adaption - Der Orchideendieb (2003)
• Adaption. (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Surreal, Hollywood, Drugs, Black Comedy, Satire, Thieves
Tagline: Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Live
Plot: Following up their acclaimed debut, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze are back to metaphysical moviemaking with ADAPTATION. The film stars Nicolas Cage as both Charlie Kaufman himself and his fictionalized identical twin brother, Donald Kaufman. While the boisterous Donald freeloads off of his sibling and works on a serial-killer movie script, Charlie is tormented by both his own army of neuroses and his new project, adapting THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean into a screenplay. As Charlie struggles to shape the nonfiction novel into a film, he begins writing himself into the story of Orlean (Meryl Streep), a sad-eyed journalist, and her subject, renegade Florida flower expert John Laroche (Chris Cooper). The resulting tale extends far beyond the scope of the book, stretching from Hollywood to New York to...Hollywood four billion years ago.Equally as inventive as BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, ADAPTATION revels in its gloriously absurd premise. Kaufman and Jonze skillfully sidestep the pitfalls of such a seemingly self-indulgent project, creating a multilayered film that focuses on the writing process as well as the nature of beauty, the beauty of nature, and dozens of other significant themes. Cage makes a stunning return to pre-Bruckheimer form
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| Directed by |
Spike Jonze
Being John Malkovich, Beastie Boys: Sabotage, Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks |
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| Charlie Kaufman
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
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 | Meryl Streep
The Deer Hunter, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Hours |
 | Chris Cooper
American Beauty, The Patriot, The Bourne Identity |
 | Tilda Swinton
Vanilla Sky, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Constantine |
 | Ron Livingston
Office Space, Swingers, Family Guy Presents: Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story |
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