Nicolas Cage

Meryl Streep

Chris Cooper

Tilda Swinton

Jay Tavare

Litefoot

Roger Willie

Jim Beaver

Cara Seymour

Doug Jones

Gary Farmer

Peter Jason

Gregory Itzin

Curtis Hanson

Agnes NaDene Baddoo

Paul Fortune

Paul Jasmin

Lisa Love

Wendy Mogel

David O. Russell

Judy Greer

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Bob Stephenson

Bob Yerkes

Lynn Court

Roger E. Fanter

Sandra Lee Gimpel

Caron Colvett

Larry Krask

Ron Livingston

Brian Cox

John Etter

Ray Berrios

Nancy Lenehan

John Cusack

Catherine Keener

John Malkovich

Curt Clendenin

Donald Dowd

Spike Jonze

Charlie Kaufman

Jonathan Demme

Edward Saxon

Vincent Landay

Lance Acord

Eric Zumbrunnen

Justine Arteta

K.K. Barrett

Peter Andrus

Gene Serdena

Casey Storm

Susan Orlean

Molly Hansen

Peter Saraf

Carter Burwell

Kim Davis-Wagner

Jonathan Paley

Richard Beggs

Lora Hirschberg

Michael Kirchberger

Kent Sparling

Peter Staubli

David Abrahamsen

Derek Vanderhorst

Mark Weber

Jeremy Molod

Julia Shirar

Everett Moore

David A. Cohen

David Franklin Bergad

William Storkson

Marnie Moore

Nick Peck

Jory K. Prum

Adam Milo Smalley

Michael Farrow

Marco Kyris

Julie Janney

Dan Bradley

Scott Rogers

Rick Barker

Chris Carnel

Lane Leavitt

Norb Phillips

Darrin Prescott

Eddie Yansick

Karen Koch

Thomas Patrick Smith

Brian O'Kelley

Ann Roth

Chiemi Karasawa

Thomas Lohmann

Mark Williams

Jamie Felz

Nina Chien

Paul Taylor

Mike Pickel

Joel Harlow

Roz Music

Stacy Horn

Shari Gray

Anita Louise Brown

Marina Marit

Debbie Travis

Lynn Barber

Isabel Harkins

Allen Weisinger

J. Roy Helland

Joseph Coscia

Larry Waggoner

Michael S. Adler

Chris Weigand

Gino Nix

Zoli Hajdu

Danny Andersen

Drew Kunin

Lawrence L. Commans

Mark Fay

Gary D'Amico

Richard Schuler

Gray Marshall

Andrew J. Sacks

Rick C. Taplin

Seve Spracklen

Chris Forster

Anders Rundblad

Patti McNulty

Lynn Christopher

Peter Davidson

Grant Samson

Jeffrey Paul Johnson

Chris Vail

Gregory J. Smith

Ben Kaller

Stephen Bures

Griff Ruggles

Ronald Stinton

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Adaptation.

Columbia Pictures

Propaganda Films

Good Machine

Intermedia

Beverly Detroit Studios

Clinica Estetico

United States of America

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based on novel or book

marriage crisis

alligator

writer's block

orchid

writer

twins

Gimly

I'm reacting the way the world does to movies about making movies about making movies. I mean come on, Charlie Kaufman, some of us have work in the morning, damn.

_Final rating:★★½ - Not quite for me, but I definitely get the appeal._

CinemaSerf

When you watch some of Nicolas Cage's more recent stuff you do wonder how on earth he ever became a star in the first place. Well, this is one of the films that reminds us why. He is a struggling screenwriter ("Charlie") charged with adapting a novel about orchids written by "Susan Orlean" (Meryl Streep). Mental block would be putting it mildly - he simply has no idea how to make it work for "Valerie" (easily one of the less abstruse roles played by Tilda Swinton). Moreover, he is constantly hassled by his twin brother "Donald" who is writing his own story - one that his sibling thinks is riddled with flaws and inconsistencies. The book he must adapt centres around the activities of "Laroche" (Chris Cooper) who had a habit of going with his Seminole pals to remove rare plants from a nature reserve. Illegal? Well not if you know your way around the Floridian penal code, and the ensuing court case is what entices "New Yorker" reporter "Orlean" to write his story. Initially sceptical of her rather uncouth subject matter - not helped by his missing front teeth, she discovers there is much more to the man and his provision of a green powder soon helps her to relax! What now ensues nicely marries the threads of the storylines as both Cage characters, an excellently enigmatic Cooper, and the unfulfilled Miss Streep find themselves gradually drawn together for an admittedly pretty far-fetched denouement (pronounce denooeymont). Cage plays the two characters with considerable skill; he juggles his characters' frustrations with his writing, his love life, his brother and his own reluctance to meet the author engagingly and at times he can make you squirm in your seat a bit. There is plenty of humour, and the all but two hours just flies by. If nothing else, it does make you appreciate just how difficult is is to turn a novel into a film - and might explain why so few people are actually any good at it!

Adaptation.( 2002)

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

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Written by Gimly on Sun Jul 26 2020

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