- Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Jay Tavare
- Directors: Spike Jonze
- Writers: Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman, Susan Orlean
- Producers: Charlie Kaufman, Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Peter Saraf
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English, French
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: May 20 2003
- Run Time: 114 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (189 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005JLRE
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- #22 in DVD > En français > Comédie > Comédies satiriques
- #36 in DVD > Action & Adventure > Action Stars > Nicolas Cage
- #64 in DVD > Comedy > Black Comedy
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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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Le réalisateur Spike Jonze et le scénariste Charlie Kaufman s’affirmaient, en 2000, comme le duo le plus prometteur du cinéma indépendant américain dans l’imaginatif Being John Malkovich. Ils sont de nouveau réunis dans Adaptation, qui, même s’il n’a pas l’éclat du précédent, brille par son originalité.
L’idée est simple : Kaufman avait tenté, en vain, d’adapter le roman Le Vol de l’orchidée, de Susan Orlean. Il a donc pris son propre échec comme sujet de scénario. Nicolas Cage devient ici Charlie Kaufman, scénariste névrosé et peureux, au frère jumeau plus doué. En parallèle nous est racontée la relation entre l’auteure du livre (Meryl Streep) et son sujet, un braconnier d’orchidées (Chris Cooper, oscar du meilleur second rôle masculin).
Voyageant allégrement entre les différents niveaux de réalité, Jonze et Kaufman se questionnent sur la création au cinéma. Malheureusement, les intrigues sont parfois confuses et nuisent à la cohérence de la réflexion, notamment lorsque l’histoire du scénariste et celle de l’auteure se rejoignent dans une tentative malhabile de créer une fin surprenante. En fait, même si l’audace du projet est à saluer, la prédominance du scénario sur la mise en scène est trop souvent déroutante pour qu’Adaptation soit vraiment à la hauteur de ce que les deux compères peuvent offrir. --Helen Faradji
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Very whitty, cleverly written movie
April 19 2009
Format:DVD
I had no idea what to expect the first time I watched this movie, but it is now one of my favotite movies. Actually after seeing this, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Being John Malkovich I have to say that Charlie Kaufman is definitely my favorite movie writer, as he writes stuff that is more original than most stuff out there, but is also very well written, and uses clever humour kind of like American Beauty.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Wow!
Mar 21 2009
Format:DVD
All I can say is WOW! You never know what is going to happen. Every minute you think one thing is going to happen and then it turns and goes in a completely different direction. It's funny, sad, shocking, suspensful, happy, everything. There is no one word to describe this movie.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Sublime Puzzle
Jun 16 2004
Format:DVD
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.
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