Adaptation.
- Released on
- Runtime
- 115 mins
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, 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, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, 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, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Cast
- Nicolas Cage
- Meryl Streep
- Chris Cooper
- Tilda Swinton
- Jay Tavare
- Litefoot
- Roger Willie
- Jim Beaver
- Cara Seymour
- Doug Jones
- Gary Farmer
- Peter Jason
- Gregory Itzin
- Curtis Hanson
- Agnes NaDene Baddoo
- Paul Fortune
- Paul Jasmin
- Lisa Love
- Wendy Mogel
- David O. Russell
- Judy Greer
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Bob Stephenson
- Bob Yerkes
- Lynn Court
- Roger E. Fanter
- Sandra Lee Gimpel
- Caron Colvett
- Larry Krask
- Ron Livingston
- Brian Cox
- John Etter
- Ray Berrios
- Nancy Lenehan
- John Cusack
- Catherine Keener
- John Malkovich
- Curt Clendenin
- Donald Dowd
Director
- Spike Jonze
Producers
- Jonathan Demme
- Edward Saxon
- Vincent Landay
Screenwriter
- Charlie Kaufman
