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Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
Adaptation (Superbit Collection)

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Actors: Jim Beaver, Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Gary Farmer
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD

List Price: $14.94
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 308 reviews
Sales Rank: 4019

Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 115 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5

MPN: 07601
ISBN: 0767879805
UPC: 043396076013
EAN: 9780767879804
ASIN: B00005JLRE

Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 2003
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: has previously viewed sticker on front of case

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper) New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Streep) Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) and his twin brother Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book "The Orchid Thief" he writes himself into his own movie. The various stories crash into one another exploding into a wildly imaginative film. ADAPTATION the year's most talked about movie is at once a hilarious drama and a moving comedy.System Requirements:Starring: Nicolas Cage Meryl Streep Tilda Swinton and Chris Cooper. Directed By: Spike Jonze. Running Time: 115 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Widescreen" format. Copyright 2003 Columbia Tri-Star.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396076013 Manufacturer No: 07601

Amazon.com
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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3 out of 5 stars Comedy Not at it's best   May 26, 2008
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this is one of the worst comedies i've seen, it's an okay movie, the only reason it's okay its because of nick cage. other than that it's dumb


5 out of 5 stars Way Above Average   May 18, 2008
Ok, so this is inside baseball, Hollywood-style, with the script merging with the mind of the script-writer. It's still very entertaining stuff, especially the voice-overs by the nervous Cage character. Cage's double-lead is exceptionally well done. Literate stuff, and only one or two gunshots and a couple of violent car accidents. Not bad for Hollywood.


5 out of 5 stars Great unknown....   May 18, 2008
Everyone has heard of this movie, very few people seem to have seen it. I was skeptical at first too, but I loved it.

Nicolas Cage plays two roles and nails them both. The story is confusing at first, but it all makes since in the end. Good movie, great characters, youll enjoy this film.



4 out of 5 stars It was a lot better than the preview on youtube.   May 15, 2008
Very interesting film, one might think through out most of the first portion of the movie that Charlies character has some sort of disease where he see's another version of himself, but that's what I thought because I over analyzed it. It really is just his twin brother. So overall, it was good, and totally worth the $3 I spent renting it.


2 out of 5 stars I lost interest halfway through.   April 28, 2008
Adaptation had my attention until the strange and boring second half. The only thing I liked about this dark comedy was Nicholas Cage and Chris Cooper, they are the two finest actors around. Meryl Streep wasn't designed for this type of role, she overacts sometimes. I cannot even explain the plot, it is so confusing. I was expecting greatness, jeez Spike Jones is out of his freakin' mind! Don't waste your money on this lackluster comedy.

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