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Charlie Kaufman is 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. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.
Charlie Kaufman struggles to transform a dense botanical text into a coherent screenplay while his own neuroses spiral into a surreal, meta-cinematic nightmare. This recursive journey blurs the line between the writer’s frantic reality and the very fiction he is desperately trying to build.
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Spike Jonze
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Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones
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Adaptation.
Rent on Apple TV+ or buy on Apple TV+.
IMDb
7.3/10
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90%
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Director
Spike Jonze
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones
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