Adaptation (8.4/10)

This is a 2002 Comedy/Crime starring Nicolas Cage. It is an unconventional movie as it blurs the line between reality and fiction in a way that’s both funny and unsettling. It is one of the best Nicolas Cage performances I have seen, playing dual roles as both the neurotic screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his confident, carefree twin brother Donald. The film follows Charlie’s tortured attempt to adapt Susan Orlean’s nonfiction book The Orchid Thief into a screenplay. I think this is a watch for avid movie fans. Might not be for casual movie watchers. "Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (Nicolas Cage). While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'."