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Adaptation.
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Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton View AllCrew
Charlie Kaufman (Screenplay), Spike Jonze (Director) View All
Release: Dec. 6th, 2002
Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes
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But then a funny, but not humorous, thing happens: The film talks about what not to do in a screen play, Cage's character says he wants to do a screen adaptation that does not have car chases and guns and typically Hollywood crap.

The film follows screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (played in-universe by Nicolas Cage) as he gets to work on his follow-up to Being John Malkovich, which is an adaptation of the non-fiction book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (played in-universe by Meryl Streep).

This movie begins with the process Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) went through, of being chosen as the screenwriter for an adaptation of The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean.