Adaptation (film) ... Adaptation is a 2002 American metafictional comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicolas …

Feb 14, 2003 · While his latest movie Being John Malkovich (1999) is in production, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is hired by Valerie Thomas to adapt Susan Orlean 's non-fiction book "The …

Adaptation. is a 2002 film directed by Spike Jonze. It was the second collaboration between Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, who's credited as the writer along with his fictional brother …

The story of Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing - and by the screenwriting ambitions of his …

Nov 15, 2025 · Adaptation (2002) is a genre-bending, metafictional black comedy directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, based (sort of) on the nonfiction book The …

Dec 20, 2002 · Now that story might make a movie, but it’s not the story of “Adaptation.” As the film opens, a screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) has been hired to adapt the …

Mar 3, 2025 · It’s arguably the most Kaufman-centric film ever made, literally placing him at the center of his own story, with Nicolas Cage (Wild at Heart, Longlegs) delivering a fantastic dual …

Oct 29, 2025 · The film charts screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's agonizing, real-life struggle to adapt a non-fiction book, a task that forces him to confront the tension between artistic …

Dec 6, 2002 · While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as …

Adaptation is a 2002 American metafictional comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, …