Adaptation.

4.00
    Adaptation.
    2002

    Synopsis

    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. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.

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    Cast

    • Nicolas CageCharlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
    • Meryl StreepSusan Orlean
    • Chris CooperJohn Laroche
    • Tilda SwintonValerie Thomas
    • Jay TavareMatthew Osceola
    • LitefootRussell
    • Roger WillieRandy
    • Jim BeaverRanger Tony
    • Cara SeymourAmelia Kavan
    • Doug JonesAugustus Margary

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Miami Herald

      In a larger sense, Adaptation is a movie about the simple act of enjoying life -- of really embracing it -- without constantly worrying about what others think.
    • 100

      Washington Post

      Surely the most creative trick of the year and grimly funny throughout.
    • 100

      Rolling Stone

      Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a rare species. It's magic.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      The notion of meta has never been diddled more mega than in this giddy Möbius strip of a movie, a contrivance so whizzy and clever that even when it tangles at the end, murked like swampy southwestern Florida itself, the stumble has quotation marks around it.
    • 90

      Salon

      A highly enjoyable failure, a quandary that can't resolve itself.
    • 88

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      Duelling roles are an actor's dream, and Cage takes full advantage. He and that face of his -- hang-dog homely one minute, vibrantly macho the next -- are perfectly cast. So is Streep as the sophisticated Manhattanite drawn into a steamy realm of Southern discomfort.
    • 83

      Portland Oregonian

      You have to experience the thing to understand its simultaneous recklessness and care, its humor and sadness in the name of failure, its playful but dismal take on formulaic Hollywood endings.
    • 75

      Christian Science Monitor

      Adaptation is sort of like the mythical Ourabouros mentioned in the screenplay -- the snake that eats its own tail -- or like a series of mirrors repeating their images to infinity.

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