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NUMBERS
Box Office: $22,184,735
VHS Rentals: $2,940,000
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CONSENSUS
Dizzyingly original, the loopy, multi-layered Adaptation is both funny and thought-provoking.
CAST & CREW
Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
Directed by Spike Jonze
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SYNOPSIS
Following up their acclaimed debut, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze are back to metaphysical moviemaking with ADAPTATION. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language, sexuality, some drug use, and violent images
RUNTIME
1 hour, 55 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 6, 2002
Video: May 20, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Drama, Surreal, Adaptation, Brothers, Film About Film, Hollywood, Authors, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Adaptation Site
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 "Sean Penn, you owe Nicolas Cage an apology."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Nervy and sensitive, it taps into genuine artistic befuddlement, and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of what drives Hollywood."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"Ultimately, it ponders the reasons we need stories so much."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"Kaufman and Jonze seamlessly blend reality and fantasy into an outrageously original offbeat comedy."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Even though the film doesn't manage to hit all of its marks, it's still entertaining to watch the target practice."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"Adaptation is intricately constructed and in a strange way nails all of Orlean's themes without being a true adaptation of her book."
-- Brian J. Arthurs, BEACH REPORTER (SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)
"There's a flash of excitement to this clever film and its performances."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"The unique niche of self-critical, behind-the-scenes navel-gazing Kaufman has carved from Orleans' story and his own infinite insecurity is a work of outstanding originality."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"One thing has been made very clear -- Being John Malkovich wasn't a fluke."
-- Kit Bowen, HOLLYWOOD.COM
"Wise, cruelly observant of human nature and hysterically funny."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"This loopy comedy certainly scores points for originality -- or at least until it writes itself into a corner during the final half-hour."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Una película, se diría, más allá de toda lógica."
-- Enrique Buchichio, URUGUAY TOTAL
"A brain twister, less a movie-movie than a funny and weird meditation on Hollywood, success, artistic integrity and intellectual bankruptcy."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
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"The film is complex, intricate, interesting and almost hypnotizing, till Charlie gets stuck (the screenplay he's writing is the one you're watching). Glad he had the gonads to do what he did then, but it subtracts from the overall entertainment value."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"A movie that comes excitingly close to being some kind of masterpiece of surrealism."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"'Compleja e intelectualmente retadora, El Ladrón de Orquídeas es uno de esos filmes que vale la pena ver precisamente por su originalidad.'"
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"Adaptation is probably the ultimate writers' film, but it's also a brash, daring, and dynamic film -- as delicate as an orchid but as durable and malleable as the species."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"The pain, loneliness and insecurity of the screenwriting process are vividly and painfully brought to slovenly life in this self-deprecating, biting and witty feature written by Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother, Donald, and directed by Spike Jonze."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"One-of-a-kind near-masterpiece."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of Kaufman's approach, somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling, sensitive, intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment."
-- Josef Braun, VUE WEEKLY (EDMONTON, CANADA)
"The best movie in many a moon about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Playfully profound... and crazier than Michael Jackson on the top floor of a skyscraper nursery surrounded by open windows."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"Despite all of Kaufman's rage, he's still just a rat in a cage. But at least he's raging."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
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FRESH 83%
Avg. Rating: 8.3/10 |
 "A movie far more cynical and lazy than anything a fictitious Charlie Kaufman might object to."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"I can't imagine Adaptation having much mainstream appeal, but, for those who look for something genuinely off-the-wall in a motion picture, this will unquestionably strike a nerve."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Too smart to ignore but a little too smugly superior to like, this could be a movie that ends up slapping its target audience in the face by shooting itself in the foot."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"What a bewilderingly brilliant and entertaining movie this is."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"A comic gem with some serious sparkles."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"Kaufman and Jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Adaptation may not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"Adaptation is simply brilliant."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
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"Provides a porthole into that noble, trembling incoherence that defines us all."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
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