Directed by Spike Jonze from a script by Charlie Kaufman ostensibly adapted from the book by Susan Orlean, ADAPTATION (2002) stars AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Meryl Streep as the author and Nicolas Cage as Kaufman, as twins. The film was recognized with an AFI AWARD, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year; according to the official rationale, “ADAPTATION (2002) a film that makes the word “original” seem ordinary. Both entertaining and intelligent, the film mercilessly destroys an audience’s expectations and demands that it keep up…keep laughing…or be cut out of the final draft.”
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