- Release Date: 2003
- Runtime: 114 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper ... see all
- Director: Spike Jonze
- Plot: A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.
User Reviews
A strange yet unique original film
Dec 21, 2008
samuraifa451 - yahoo.com
Dec 21, 2008samuraifa451 - yahoo.com
Adaptation is awkward, bizarre, but yet eventually gives its viewer a feel for its originality and clever delivery. When screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is assigned to do an adaptation of a book on plants called The Orchid Thief, he slowly finds himself... Full review
The Emperor has no clothes on fools!
Jul 11, 2008
cashmoney169 - yahoo.com
Jul 11, 2008cashmoney169 - yahoo.com
ACK. YUCK. PHOOEY. What the sam heck is this movie about? What a total waste of good film, great actors, and... I can't even believe it's associated with The Orchid Thief (which was a book I loved!) If I were Susan... Full review
People, People, People!!!!!
Feb 12, 2008
szizzlechick - yahoo.com
Feb 12, 2008szizzlechick - yahoo.com
This movie is outstanding to those that have the mind capability to understand the detailed plot and where Kaufman was going with the movie!!! Those people with closed minds are not going to find this movie interesting at all... Movie goers... Full review
Average
Dec 23, 2007
zhuomk - yahoo.com
Dec 23, 2007zhuomk - yahoo.com
I always am so into Nick Cage's performance. This movie is not his best one I have to admit. Mention about the movie. It did not impress me so much. Maybe,cuz I was expecting too much.... Full review
It was good.
Sep 02, 2007
coltonwmiller - yahoo.com
Sep 02, 2007coltonwmiller - yahoo.com
Adaptation was a good movie. It was confusing though because it is about a guy writing himself into his movie about him writing an adaptation of a book that is an adaptation of a woman's lif. I thought that was confusing,... Full review
"The script I'm starting, it's about flowers. No one's ever done a movie about flowers before."
Jul 20, 2007
ackatsis - imdb.com
Jul 20, 2007ackatsis - imdb.com
After the phenomenal success of 'Being John Malkovich' in 1999, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman was commissioned to adapt Susan Orlean's non-fiction novel, "The Orchid Thief," for the screen. However, it didn't take long for him to realise that Orlean's book was... Full review
Great though weird....
Jul 15, 2007
jnorrister - yahoo.com
Jul 15, 2007jnorrister - yahoo.com
Though this was a mindbugging and stressful movie to follow, it was very well intentioned and the acting was superb.... Full review
Kaufman's weakest effort
Jul 12, 2007
danielcharchuk - yahoo.com
Jul 12, 2007danielcharchuk - yahoo.com
I thought it was pretty ingenious, and very original, but it just didn't hook me like it should have. Everything involving the Kaufman brothers I loved; Cage gives probably his best performance here (probably because he's at his most un-Cage like)... Full review
A wonderful masterpiece
Jul 02, 2007
derek1993usa - yahoo.com
Jul 02, 2007derek1993usa - yahoo.com
Adaptation is one of the greatest movie ever. Yes, ever. That's as much as I can say about it. It is amazing. Just go see it now. If your still reading, and not watching Adaptation, you should be.... Full review
A Guide on "How To Write A Screenplay" and "How to Live Life"
May 12, 2007
TheEighthDeadlySin - imdb.com
May 12, 2007TheEighthDeadlySin - imdb.com
Jonze and Kaufman have pulled it off again. Witty, surreal, brilliant, inventive, amazing and most of all; the most inspirational film I have ever seen. One of the best and definitive films of the 21st Century. Nicolas Cage has two parts... Full review
Critics Reviews
| May 24, 2009Urban Cinefile
And it's a mesmerising, gritty film of contemporary sensibilities.....Made with bravado and suffused with anti-vanity, Adaptation will scar your ideas of script writing like the thorn of a big, wild, red rose.....Nicolas Cage, wonderful as the twins, Meryl Streep marvellous and Tilda Swinton splendid.....What an extraordinary performance by the ever-versatile Chris Cooper:....A great cast all round -.... ... Full Review
| Sep 18, 2008Chicago Sun-Times
The scenes are also wildly audacious and hilarious....that it records the torments of a screenwriter who doesn't know how the hell to write a movie about orchids.....," he says, and in context, it's one of the movie's funniest lines.....The performances are wonderful.....At first sight, he would rank last on any list of lovers for an elegant New Yorker writer..... ... Full Review
| Sep 18, 2008Chicago Sun-Times
The scenes are also wildly audacious and hilarious....that it records the torments of a screenwriter who doesn't know how the hell to write a movie about orchids.....," he says, and in context, it's one of the movie's funniest lines.....The performances are wonderful.....At first sight, he would rank last on any list of lovers for an elegant New Yorker writer..... ... Full Review
| Apr 15, 2008associatedcontent.com
This movie was intriguing to say the least.....The movie had no turning point and two boring plots.....Charlie Kaufman struggles to write his simple screenplay about flowers.....There was not an exciting climax.....the movie didn't seem to have a good story line..... ... Full Review
| Apr 11, 2007associatedcontent.com
Adaptation is a very unique movie.....He has a hard time trying to make the book into a half way interesting movie.....Charlie's failed attempts in making the Orchid movie interesting leads him to a screenwriting lecture which Donald had suggested to him.....Spike Jonze did a wonderful job directing.....I think that the actors were great.... ... Full Review
News
'Wild Things' a moody mix
lansingcitypulse.com –
2009-10-21
Taking on an enormous task, Director Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich," "Adaptation") has made a fiercely innovative but uneven film based on Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book. ... Full Article
Mr. Bruni comes by his appetite honestly. One of four children in a lively, comfortably affluent suburban New York family, he is stuffed from the start by his Italian grandmother, then by his mother, a WASP from more of a... ... Full Article
Where the Wild Things Are was written in 1963 by Maurice Sendak. It is scheduled to be released as CGI backed full lengthe motion picture on October 16th of this year by director Spike Jonze. ... Full Article
By Duane Dudek
jsonline.com –
2008-09-14
Synedoche, New York - "Adaptation" screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut has the elliptical trademarks of his past work made into the near unfathomable. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a playwright whose life is his work, literally, in which all of the... ... Full Article
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jsonline.com –
2008-09-14
Synedoche, New York - "Adaptation" screenwriter Charlie Kaufmans directorial debut has the elliptical trademarks of his past work made into the near unfathomable. Philip Seymour Hoffman is a playwright whose life is his work, literally, in which all of the... ... Full Article

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