Adaptation
Columbia Pictures
2003 - Rated R - 1 hr 54 min
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
This movie is just weird, from beginning to end. But Chris Cooper won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for it, so there's that...
It's a movie about a book being adapted into a screenplay and the screenwriter who can't quite get it done. Written by Charlie Kaufman, it focuses on Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. In real life, there is no Donald. In the movie, both Kaufman's are Nicolas Cage. Balding Nicolas Cage.
Meryl Streep is the author of the book and the movie goes back and forth between her experiences recounted from the book and her real life in the present (3 years after living the content of the book). Still with me?
Anyway, the title is clever, the acting is good, but the premise is a bit daunting. In one sentence, the movie really is about learning how to adapt yourself. But it sure takes it's time getting you to that message.
Not a bad movie, just not something too watch when you want to be entertained mindlessly.
I remember at the time it gave some hope that Nic Cage might still care about making good movies... boy that sure didn't pan out.
ReplyDeleteI cite "Ghostrider" as a prime example of that. Ugh.
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