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  • Adaptation
  • Opened December 6, 2002 | Runtime:1 hr. 54 min.
  • Sexuality, Language, Some Drug Use and Violent Images
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 15+. Read More
  • Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (Nicolas Cage). While struggling to Read More
  • Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour
  • Director: Spike Jonze
  • Genres: Satire, Black Comedy, Comedy Drama

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  • 100
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Screenwriting this smart, inventive, passionate and rip-roaringly funny is a...

  • 100
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    May not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most...

  • 100
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Surely the most creative trick of the year and grimly funny throughout.

  • 100
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    I realize that the fear of contracting writer's block from a fictional...

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