Adaptation

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Adaptation

film by Jonze [2002]

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- Spike Jonze
  …directed his second feature film, Adaptation, which was also written by Kaufman. The acclaimed dramedy centers on a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) who has difficulty adapting a book about orchids into a movie. A parallel story line follows the book’s author (Meryl Streep) and the orchid thief (Chris…
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  …directed his second feature film, Adaptation, which was also written by Kaufman. The acclaimed dramedy centers on a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) who has difficulty adapting a book about orchids into a movie. A parallel story line follows the book’s author (Meryl Streep) and the orchid thief (Chris…
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- Charlie Kaufman
  His screenplay for Adaptation (2002), again directed by Jonze, was inspired by the difficulties that he had had in adapting journalist Susan Orlean’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief for the screen. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, the film’s dual narrative weaves together scenes from Orlean’s book…
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  His screenplay for Adaptation (2002), again directed by Jonze, was inspired by the difficulties that he had had in adapting journalist Susan Orlean’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief for the screen. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, the film’s dual narrative weaves together scenes from Orlean’s book…
  Read More