Fri., Dec. 6, 2002 12:00 AM PST
Last time we saw Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, they took us on the mind-bender
Being John Malkovich. Now the two bring us into an even more beautifully disturbed brain: Kaufman's own noggin. In the twisted and brilliant
Adaptation, the tortured screenwriter not only shares his uneasy attempt at trying to adapt Susan Orlean's book
The Orchid Thief into a movie, but he ultimately turns himself into the focus of the movie.
Trust us, it makes a strange kind of sense. And
Nicolas Cage, in his best role in years, is completely up to the task, playing
both the wound-up Charlie and his easy-breezy twin Donald.
Meryl Streep goes deliciously nuts as Orlean, while
Chris Cooper (
American Beauty) better start writing his Best Supporting Actor Oscar speech now for his portrayal of an obsessed horticulturist. Weird and wonderful in so many ways,
Adaptation has all of the write stuff.
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