Adaptation/Being John Malkovich DVD

Adaptation:
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.

Being John Malkovich:
At last a movie for anyone who ever wanted to be someone... else. Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) an unappreciative puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the 7 1/2 floor of an office building. Bored with his ten-year marriage to Lotte (Cameron Diaz), he becomes obsessed with the beautiful Maxine (Catherine Keener), who rejects him. Dejected Craig retreats into his office. In a moment of exasperation Craig slams a filing cabinet and discovers a passageway. Sucked through a dark, wet tunnel, Craig then realises that he has just discovered an all-access pass to the unique experience that is... John Malkovich! He is being John Malkovich. And this is just the beginning.

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