Adaptation

Directed by Spike Jonze
Starring Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox

From the team behind Being John Malkovich, writer Charlie Kaufman adapts the story of his own struggle to write the screenplay for Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, blending elements from the novel with his own overactive imagination.

Nicolas Cage stars as Charlie Kaufman, a confused screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (also played by Nicolas Cage).