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Adaptation
. We see the action of the book as we see Kaufman struggle to adapt it into a movie. This is presumably a somewhat true story, as Charlie Kaufman is the real life screenwriter of Adaptation.
12 June 1953, Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada
24 March 1945, Reno, Nevada, USA
31 October 1955, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1 March 1969, Upland, California, USA
9 July 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
20 July 1975, Detroit, Michigan, USA
9 June 1987, Dallas, Texas, USA
30 May 1951, Dallas, Texas, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
26 April 1953, Long Island, New York, USA
March 13, 2009
Adaptation would all be insufferably clever-clever were its motivation not so genuine. Instead it is experimental, funny, with a tightly-repressed anger and a desire to dig out truth rather than take refuge in the usual artifice.
December 20, 2002
Adaptation may not be the first movie to examine the creative process. But it's the most playfully brilliant.
January 10, 2003
Mired in the inertia of Charlie's writer's block, as if the real Kaufman never found his own passion for the material.
December 30, 2009
An impressive follow-up to Being John Malkovich, Adaptation is even more playful, amusing, metanarrative and metaphysical than Jonze's first film, plus it has Nicolas Cage in a dual role and Meryl Streep in one of her wildest turns.
September 25, 2010
At all times, "Adaptation." carries the thrillingly unpredictable charge of a film writing itself before your eyes. Spike Jonze matches Charlie Kaufman's tumble through time, neuroticism, fact and fiction with depictions of creation at a cellular level.
December 29, 2010
A fine accomplishment from all involved, especially Charlie Kauffman, who has written a bewildering and captivating movie, which bares his mind, heart and soul.
April 27, 2003
It's the sort of movie that keeps reinventing itself and nudging us in the ribs as it does. You'll want to see it soon, because everyone you know will be talking about it.
September 02, 2010
Adult stuff only but hilarious and fresh.
January 16, 2003
Few recent movies have conveyed so forcefully how people can feel shut out by their own lack of passion, how they yearn to end the emptiness.
January 09, 2003
One-of-a-kind near-masterpiece.
June 24, 2006
For two-thirds of its running time the film is close to genius. But there's still no third act.
January 10, 2016
unique