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Adaptation is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper, with Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in supporting roles.
Feb 14, 2003 · Adaptation.: Directed by Spike Jonze. With Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper. A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Sep 18, 2008 · Charlie Kaufman's screenplay for "Adaptation." (2002) has it three ways. It is wickedly playful in its construction, it gets the story told, and it doubles back and kids itself.
Dec 6, 2002 · Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin...
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Dec 6, 2022 · ADAPTATION, the year's most talked about movie, is at once a hilarious drama and a moving comedy. #Adaptation #OfficialTrailer #20thAnniversary #NicolasCage #MerylStreep #ChrisCooper # ...
Dec 20, 2002 · "Adaptation" is some kind of a filmmaking miracle, a film that is at one and the same time (a) the story of a movie being made, (b) the story of orchid thievery and criminal conspiracies, and (c) a deceptive combination of fiction and real life.
Donald decides to become a screenwriter like Charlie and attends Robert McKee's famous seminars. Charlie, who rejects simplistic formulaic script writing, wants to ensure that his script is a faithful adaptation of The Orchid Thief.
From Director Spike Jonze (Her, Being John Malkovich) comes a critically acclaimed, wildly unconventional comedy about a lovelorn writer who, out of sheer desperation, decides to insert himself ...
Dec 6, 2002 · Adaptation is an absurdist comedy, but it is also a broader critique of film as a creative medium and as an art form. Adaptation literally looks at the story of Kaufman's struggle to adapt a critically middling book that lacks a clear subject into a Hollywood film.
Dec 6, 2002 · Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, 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.
