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Synopsis:

The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the success of Being John Malkovich, has been hired to write a script adapted from the nonfiction book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. But while Charlie is obsessive about his work, he's also intensely paranoid, given to deep depression, socially inept, and terrified of talking to women, qualities which are making it difficult to get on with his work or hold on to his tenuous relationship with girlfriend Amelia (Cara Seymour).


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Spike Jonze
  • Studio: Clinica Estetica
  • Year: 2002
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R (for language, sexuality, some drug use and violent images)
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 2002 12 06 (USA - Limited), 2002 01 10 (USA)

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