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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.
- (204K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Spike Jonze
- 2003-02-14
Dec 6, 2002 · Meryl Streep plays author Susan Orlean, a woman who discovers real passion for the first time in her life, in Columbia Pictures' unconventional comedy Adaptation.
- (210)
- Spike Jonze
- R
- Nicolas Cage
A meta-comedy about a screenwriter's struggle to adapt a book about orchids and evolution. Nicolas Cage plays twin brothers, Meryl Streep is the author, and Chris Cooper is the orchid hunter in this inventive and hilarious film by Spike Jonze.
Dec 6, 2022 · As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book "The Orchid Thief," he writes himself into his own movie. The various stories crash into one another exploding into a wildly imaginative...
- 2 min
- 149.3K
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
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.
Dec 6, 2002 · Novel. Charlie Kaufman. Screenplay. 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.
