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Adaptation. (2002) Movie Reviews
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Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
A daring and gleeful rearrangement of film grammar and a zinging ode to the imagination....read the complete Adaptation. (2002) review at Dallas Morning News (Chris Vognar)
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Man Who Viewed Too Much (Mike D'Angelo)
What makes Adaptation more than just a clever stunt is the way that Laroche's fickle enthusiasm, Orlean's quiet longing and "Kaufman"'s paralyzing self-doubt dovetail to form a potent, funny-sad disquisition on the value of compromise....read the complete Adaptation. (2002) review at Man Who Viewed Too Much (Mike D'Angelo)
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Film Threat (Rick Kisonak)
At the end of the day, though, this is Charlie Kaufman's movie and I'm not sure he proves quite the visionary puppetmaster many in the media are making him out to be....read the complete Adaptation. (2002) review at Film Threat (Rick Kisonak)
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Dallas Observer (Robert Wilonsky)
The most overrated movie of the year (of all time?) by people who should know better....read the complete Adaptation. (2002) review at Dallas Observer (Robert Wilonsky)
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by djward on January 23, 2009
I must confess right now that I'm not a big fan of most movies starring Meryl Streep or Nicolas Cage. It must be difficult being a popular actor, but after seeing these two in so many films, it's hard not to recognize characteristics they ...
by Matthew Allard on October 02, 2009
Charlie Kaufman has written a movie about Charlie Kaufman trying to adapt the book "The Orchid Thief" into a movie. Get past thinking that Kaufman is egotistical for writing himself into his own script. So what if he is? It's still hilarious.
For anyone ...
by Joshua Miller "Jo... on July 12, 2009
Re-teaming with Being John Malkovich director Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman penned the script for Adaptation. What began as Kaufman adapting the book The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle) turned into something ...
by J. Moyers on April 15, 2009
"Adaptation.", on a superficial level, is a drama-comedy that is self-referential and existent in the vein of literature. At first assessment, one would suspect that Kaufman was not entirely true to the source material, as though he instead warped ...
by Ghost "Still Lear... on February 01, 2009
I've only just seen this movie but I'm sure that I'll buy it. It's definetely more complex than you would think in the beginning, "Is he his twin or is he a dissociative identity disorder piece? Is this adapted from a fictional book or a nonfictional ...
by Surferofromantica... on December 24, 2008
A very strange self-referenced, self-involved, solipsistic film about a screenplay about a book about a flower. An article appeared in the New Yorker about orchids in the Everglades, it was turned into a book, Charlie Kaufmann was commissioned to turn it ...
by Polly-o on December 24, 2008
Disappointed when I saw it in the theater, but multiple viewings have made me a rabid fan. This movie is so clever, amusing, hilarious, provocative, heartbreaking, poignant, honest, and ultimately so satisfying for all its ambiguity. To try to describe ...
by Pat Shand "Pat Sh... on December 02, 2008
To say the least, Charlie Kaufman's "Adaptation" is the most original movie I've ever seen. It is at once an adaptation of Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief, a bio pic, a reflection on Kaufman's (played by Cage) many tries at writing said adaptation, ...
by peter andronas on November 25, 2008
Original and breathtaking!
The subject of the story is less important because when it's taken to this level of creativity, it's cinema.
The opening sequence is outrageous without losing focus, it is a movie unto itself and it's part of what the movie ...
by Yasmin H. McEwen ... on October 12, 2008
This movie Rocks! I can honestly say it is one of the most inspiring and intelligent movies of the decade. If you've ever been in a relationship (any will do) where you felt squashed and unable to breathe; due to your own inequities or imagined; Charlie ...
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