Adaptation. is a 2002 American comedy-drama metafilm directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Kaufman and his fictional twin brother Donald, Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean, and Chris Cooper as John Laroche, with Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in supporting roles.
- Starring : Nicolas Cage / Meryl Streep
- Genre : Comedy / Drama
- Country : United States
- Language : English / Latin
- Director : Spike Jonze
- Production : Beverly Detroit / Clinica Estetico / Good Machine / Intermedia / Magnet Productions / Propaganda Films
- Distributor : Columbia Pictures / Columbia TriStar Film / Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina / Independent Films / Monopole-Pathé / Sandrew Metronome Distribution / Sony Pictures Releasing / Aquarius TV / Asmik Ace Entertainment / Bac Films / Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment / Columbia TriStar / Eagle Films / Image Entertainment / LK-TEL / LNK Filmes / Paradise Group / Pyramid / RLJ Entertainment / Umbrella Entertainment / Universal Pictures Video / Universal Pictures / Yleisradio (YLE)
Adaptation movie
Adaptation release date
- December 3, 2002 : USA (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
- December 6, 2002 : Canada (limited)
- December 6, 2002 : USA (limited)
- December 26, 2002 : Australia
- February 8, 2003 : Germany (Berlin International Film Festival)
- February 14, 2003 : USA
- February 28, 2003 : UK
- February 28, 2003 : Ireland
- March 13, 2003 : Germany
- March 13, 2003 : Israel
- March 21, 2003 : Spain
- March 26, 2003 : Switzerland (French speaking region)
- March 26, 2003 : France
- April 16, 2003 : Sweden
- May 1, 2003 : Switzerland (German speaking region)
- June 25, 2003 : Philippines (Manila)
- July 2, 2003 : Philippines (Davao)
- August 23, 2003 : Japan (Tokyo)
- June 17, 2004 : USA (Nantucket Film Festival)
Adaptation cast
- Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
- Tilda Swinton as Valerie Thomas
- Meryl Streep as Susan Orlean
- Chris Cooper as John Laroche
- Jay Tavare as Matthew Osceola
- Litefoot as Russell (as G. Paul Davis)
- Roger Willie as Randy
- Jim Beaver as Ranger Tony
- Cara Seymour as Amelia Kavan
- Doug Jones as Augustus Margary
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Ranger Steve Neely (scenesDeleted)
- Gary Farmer as Buster Baxley
- Peter Jason as Defense Attorney
- Gregory Itzin as Prosecutor
- Curtis Hanson as Orlean’s Husband
It is based both on Orlean’s 1998 nonfiction book The Orchid Thief and Kaufman’s experience attempting to adapt the book into a screenplay while suffering from writer’s block. Adaptation also adds a number of fictitious elements, including Kaufman’s twin brother (also credited as a writer for the film) and a romance between Orlean and Laroche, and culminates in completely invented events including fictional versions of Orlean and Laroche three years after the events related in The Orchid Thief.
Despite only grossing $32.8 million on a budget of $19 million, Adaptation was praised for Jonze’s direction, Charlie Kaufman’s screenplay, its humor, and the performances of Cage, Cooper and Streep. It received awards at the 75th Academy Awards, 60th Golden Globe Awards, and 56th British Academy Film Awards, with Cooper winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Kaufman winning the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. A British Film Institute poll ranked it one of the thirty best films of the 2000s.
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