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Adaptation (Widescreen) | 
| Director: Spike Jonze
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Jason, Catherine Keener
Studio: Columbia TriStar
Category: DVD
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Rating:  187 reviews
Sales Rank: 6570
Format: Dolby, Dubbed, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: COLD07601D
ISBN: 0767879805
UPC: 043396076013
EAN: 9780767879804
ASIN: B00005JLRE
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 2003
Release Date: October 7, 2003
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From Amazon.com
Twisty brilliance from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the team who created IBeing John Malkovich/I. Nicolas Cage returns to form with a funny, sad, and sneaky performance as Charlie Kaufman, a self-loathing screenwriter who has been hired to adapt Susan Orlean's book IThe Orchid Thief/I into a screenplay. Frustrated and infatuated by Orlean's elegant but plotless book (which is largely a rumination on flowers), Kaufman begins to write a screenplay about himself trying to write a screenplay about IThe Orchid Thief/I, all the while hounded by his twin brother Donald (Cage again), who's cheerfully writing the kind of formulaic action movie that Kaufman finds repugnant. By its conclusion, IAdaptation/I is the most artistically ambitious, most utterly cynical, and most uncategorizable movie ever to come out of Hollywood. Also starring Meryl Streep (as Susan Orlean), Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, and Brian Cox; superb performances throughout. I--Bret Fetzer/I
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Le realisateur Spike Jonze et le scenariste Charlie Kaufman s'affirmaient, en 2000, comme le duo le plus prometteur du cinema independant americain dans l'imaginatif IBeing John Malkovich/I. Ils sont de nouveau reunis dans IAdaptation/I, qui, meme s'il n'a pas l'eclat du precedent, brille par son originalite. P L'idee est simple : Kaufman avait tente, en vain, d'adapter le roman ILe Vol de l'orchidee/I, de Susan Orlean. Il a donc pris son propre echec comme sujet de scenario. Nicolas Cage devient ici Charlie Kaufman, scenariste nevrose et peureux, au frere jumeau plus doue. En parallele nous est racontee la relation entre l'auteure du livre (Meryl Streep) et son sujet, un braconnier d'orchidees (Chris Cooper, oscar du meilleur second role masculin). P Voyageant allegrement entre les differents niveaux de realite, Jonze et Kaufman se questionnent sur la creation au cinema. Malheureusement, les intrigues sont parfois confuses et nuisent a la coherence de la reflexion, notamment lorsque l'histoire du scenariste et celle de l'auteure se rejoignent dans une tentative malhabile de creer une fin surprenante. En fait, meme si l'audace du projet est a saluer, la predominance du scenario sur la mise en scene est trop souvent deroutante pour qu'IAdaptation/I soit vraiment a la hauteur de ce que les deux comperes peuvent offrir. --IHelen Faradji/I
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 The Amazing Peebs February 7, 2005
Perry Brown (Fort Nelson, British Columbia Canada)
I quite simply loved this movie it is perfect and unique and every time i watch it i see more and more of its beauty
 The becoming cover up! July 17, 2004
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The absence of creativeness and the absence of absolute commitment , the desperation , the hunger for winning no matter how , the maquiavelian moods and the duality , the breakthrough in the personality of a human being metaphrically represented as twins invades this original script.brObviously the movie always keeps a hidden card in your reservoir plot. The story is told through great narrative elipsis which overlaps one to another . This puzzle technique reminds us to Memento , in this sense. And Robert Altman 's style. (The player or Shorts cuts)brThis smart use of two twins has been employed by other directors (Sean Penn in the indian runner , for instance) , but the resourec that keeps you in the seat is the richness in the second characters .brSince a no sense accidents shapes the life of a man , who tells his private life to a greddy writer, to inspire her , will be without knowing them the sparkling issue to exploid the dramatci nucleus .brThe film certainly lost his fierce impact gotten in the first half of the film , seeking may be the critical gaze about the decay moral .brGood work for all the cast . Superb direction and extraordinary special effects ( the crash car in both cases)
 uhhhhhh... no. July 4, 2004
mark twain (Uruguay)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I guess I should've known better, being that I loathed Being John Malkovich, but I was pretty shlitzed when I hit the video store so what the hell.brSo tonight I put on the DVD, only to find that the first minutes, while white credits are slowly getting gone through on a black screen, are occupied by a voice-over by Nicholas Cage, whining about his life at great length like a Woody Allenesque self-pitying slob. I need to get my life back on track, gotta start running five miles a day, really do it this time, make it happen maybe I'll take up rock climbing I'm really in a rut.... This person has a severely neurotic personality which is not attractive in the least. Its at this point you begin to see what you're in for with this picture: a kind of more irritating, slightly more functional version of Rainman, only minus the card counting. The movie progresses from there to self-consciously daffy scene-making, where you get to see a band of guys ripping off an endangered orchid from like the everglades. A park ranger shows up and this orchid-stealing piece of white trash gives him some claptrap about how his associates are all American Indians and as such would be immune from prosecution for stealing the orchid, since they apparently have some special dispensation which states that they can do as they please on the grounds that they are inscrutable savages who should be left to their backward ways. You know, they use the orchid for some vague and hypothetical tribal type purpose that no white man should interfere with etc. etc. This is all supposed to be very entertaining. Don't ask me why.
Sublime Puzzle June 16, 2004
R. A Rubin (Eastern, PA United States)
I did not see Being John Malkovich. It was brought to screen by Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, but I will correct that error shortly. Adaptation is a Hollywood insider movie. Like Hollywood Boulevard with Gloria Swanson and William Holden, it takes you behind the scenes. This is a fictionalization of real screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman's bizarre difficulties with adapting a novel, Susan Orlean's real book, The Orchid Thief. A fictional brother was created for Charlie. Donald is the gabby and cheerful alter ego of morose and introspective Charlie, and Cage plays both. This is a nice turn for Cage because he gets to play the twin-opposites with amazing clarity. Charlie is the screenwriter that believes originality and cerebral acrobatics are the stuff of art. His brother, the wifty, Donald is writing a screenplay too. His Hollywood screenwriting guru, Brian Cox plays Robert McKee. The guru preaches formula. But Donald's script is accepted immediately and his success with the ladies is driving his brother crazy. Charlie's writers-block over the Orchid script paralyzes not only his writing but also his ability to love. Meryl Street plays the real life author Susan Orlean. The writer becomes passionately involved with goofball horticulturalist and adventurer, John LaRouche played by Chris Cooper. LaRouche risks his life to find the perfect orchid, a Conradian theme from Heart of Darkness. But if that orchid can be ground up into powder and snorted like cocaine to produce a state of perfect passion, then can we blame the addicted Meryl Street for loving toothless LaRouche? Then there is violence, car chases, and the sex scene. This is the real Kaufman being sarcastic, playful, and err formulistic. I once heard it said that there are only 24 plots available to the writer in human experience.
Absolutely Horrible! June 12, 2004
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Saw this movie thinking it truly must be worth all of the hype. Not that far into it I turned to my friend and said If Nicholas Cage masturbates one more time, I'm leaving!pShining perfomance (once again) by Chris Cooper, and the story between him and Meryl Streep was worth watching. However in this film, their wonderful performances were wasted.pAs for Nick, I generally like the guy, but this movie was a stretch for him. The entire time I felt as though I was watching a guy who was acting, and not as if I were in the story. Not sure what all of the buzz was about. Truly a disappointment in my view.pSpend your money on Lost in Translation.
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