Adaptation (Blu-ray)
From the creator of Being John Malkovich, comes the story about the creator of Being John Malkovich.
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 20, 2020
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep & Chris Cooper | |
Performer: | Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox, Ron Livingston, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Curtis Hanson & Judy Greer | |
Directed by | Spike Jonze | |
Screenwriting by | Charlie Kaufman | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Cameo: | Catherine Keener, John Cusack & John Malkovich | |
Produced by | Jonathan Demme | |
Executive Production by | Charlie Kaufman |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2002 -
Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper
Entertainment Reviews:
...The boldest and most imaginative studio film of the year...
Los Angeles Times
...It has all the pleasing confusion of an optical illusion....A dizzying, unique work...
Total Film
Rating: 4/4 --
At all times, "Adaptation." carries the thrillingly unpredictable charge of a film writing itself before your eyes. Spike Jonze matches Charlie Kaufman's tumble through time, neuroticism, fact and fiction with depictions of creation at a cellular level.
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The Film Yap
...A wickedly funny movie....It's refreshingly unique...
Box Office
Rating: 5/5 --
Adult stuff only but hilarious and fresh.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: A- --
It's the sort of movie that keeps reinventing itself and nudging us in the ribs as it does. You'll want to see it soon, because everyone you know will be talking about it.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: 5/5 --
Blurs the lines between truth, fiction and bald-faced lies with innovative, breathtaking abandon.
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Herald Sun (Australia)
Product Description:
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 in the roles of the Kaufman brothers, giving their identical appearances completely different personalities and making them believable to boot. Meanwhile, the consistently excellent Streep and the often underrated Cooper are perfectly matched as Orlean and Laroche. Even the less central roles are played by great actors--Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Ron Livingston appear as supporting characters. Careening wildly between the hilarious, the ridiculous, and the poignant, Kaufman and Jonze's ADAPTATION is another fine example of their bravura yet sincere style of cinema.
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 in the roles of the Kaufman brothers, giving their identical appearances completely different personalities and making them believable to boot. Meanwhile, the consistently excellent Streep and the often underrated Cooper are perfectly matched as Orlean and Laroche. Even the less central roles are played by great actors--Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Ron Livingston appear as supporting characters. Careening wildly between the hilarious, the ridiculous, and the poignant, Kaufman and Jonze's ADAPTATION is another fine example of their bravura yet sincere style of cinema.
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