Adaptation. [Region 2] | ![Adaptation. [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RHUPOGhdL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Spike Jonze
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Jay Tavare
Category: DVD
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Rating:  320 reviews
Sales Rank: 132900
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Original Language), Latin (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5035822270732
ASIN: B000087JHV
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 2003
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Twisty brilliance from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the team who created Being John Malkovich. 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 The Orchid Thief 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 The Orchid Thief, 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, Adaptation 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. --Bret Fetzer
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 AMAZING February 12, 2010
Boyang Sun
This doesn't cater to the crowd that just wants to enjoy a movie, but as a screenwriter myself whose allegiance always skirts the line between mainstream contrivance and indie banality I felt less alone after watching this movie, and that's what great art does for people. I didn't even get it the first time, but I wasn't so quick to call it "pretentious" because I don't take incomprehensible things as a shot to my ego like some of the reviewers here. Don't watch this expecting to be wowed, and you will be if you're any type of artist who's ever struggled with the choice between populism and possibly alienating self-expression.
 Adaptation, DVD February 6, 2010
B. Whitney (Florida)
The film is nothing like the book, The Orchid Thief, but it is an amusing story with greats like Meryl Streep and Nicholas Cage and the actor, Cooper. I enjoyed the scenes set in Miami, Broward county and the Everglades, swamps I had hiked in, too. I recently became interested in orchid culture and so The Orchid Thief book was recommended. Most of it set in Miami-Dade county where I live; many of the sites and people I am familiar with. I recently met people who had had disastrous dealings with the hero, John LaRoche, and was regaled with these hilarious stories. They all encouraged me to see the film, which they loved and they felt had a very satisfying ending , to them.
I purchased several copies of the DVD to give as Christmas gifts, which were much appreciaterd and enjoyed.
 Horrible. Uninteresting pitifull characters. December 12, 2009
SWS (Minnesota)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I tried to watch this movie, I made it through over and hour of torture and shut it off.
Maybe my expectations were too high. The critics loved this movie, they called it funny. Big name actors. I thought it was... junk. Too much unhappiness and dispair for me.
 the insane New York state of mind? November 18, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
If this is critically acclaimed as a movie than we have New york critics who are
in therapy or need to be? I suppose there are two ways to look at this movie:
a through the looking glass comedy about intellectual instability
or just a play by someone who should probably be in prison for
the safety of the community? Something like van Gogh
cutting off his ear without the excuse of great art?
In the decline of the Roman Empire the ruling class just lost it.
That behavior seems to be the state of New York in the entertainment industry?
People get critically acclaimed for making trash and
calling it art.
I think the totally lost fellow who gives the screen writing class
kind of sums up how bad thing really are?
A screenplay about screenwriting October 2, 2009
Matthew Allard (Cleveland, OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Charlie Kaufman has written a movie about Charlie Kaufman trying to adapt the book "The Orchid Thief" into a movie. Get past thinking that Kaufman is egotistical for writing himself into his own script. So what if he is? It's still hilarious.
For anyone who has ever had writer's block, this is a truly hilarious portrait of an artist struggling to write a screenplay about flowers.
Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper are a perfect pair, playing the author and the orchid thief, respectively. They really do have good chemistry. Not to mention Nicolas Cage is really at his best here playing both Charlie and his twin brother Donald. The insecure Kaufman of the movie is a nervous wreck, polar opposite of the egotistical Donald. The characters are fun to watch together onscreen, and Cage pulls it off perfectly.
This is really a fun, wild film, and you can tell Charile Kaufman enjoys pushing and breaking the boundaries of the film medium, even just in his screenwriting.
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