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Adaptation.

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton View All

Crew

Spike Jonze (Director), Charlie Kaufman (Screenplay), Donald Kaufman (Screenplay) View All

Released: Dec. 6th, 2002

Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes

A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.

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Citizen Rules
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.

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Iroquois
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).

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