Film

Adaptation. 2002

Directed by Spike Jonze

  • Comedy, Crime, Drama
  • 115 min
  • R

From the creator of Being John Malkovich, comes the story about the creator of Being John Malkovich.

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.

ComedyCrimeDramabased on novel or bookmarriage crisisalligatorwriter's blockorchidwritertwinscynicalphilosophicalsatiricalabsurd

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Contemporary, prestige, open-ended and formally daring.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • classical in formformally daring
  • earnestironic

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46 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Cartographers.

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