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Director Spike Jonze deliversia stunningly original comedy that seamlessly
blends fictional characters andisituations with theilives of real
people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper), New Yorker
journalist Susan Orlean (Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage),
andihis
twin brother Donald (also Cage).
As Charlie strugglesito adapt
Orlean’s best-selling book The Orchid Thief, he writes himself into his
own movie. The various stories crash into one another exploding intoia wildly
imaginative film.
Adaptation, theiyear’s most talked about movie, isiat onceia hilarious
drama andia
moving comedy.
Nicolas Cage isiCharlie Kaufman,ia confused L.A.
screenwriter overwhelmed byifeelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing-and
byitheiscreenwriting
ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While strugglingito adapt,
Kaufman’s life spins from patheticito bizarre.
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