USA,
2002, 114 min
Directed by:
Spike JonzeScreenplay:
Charlie KaufmanCinematography:
Lance AcordComposer:
Carter BurwellCast:
Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Jim Beaver, Judy Greer, Litefoot, Doug Jones, Roger Willie, Gregory Itzin, Ron Livingston (more)Plots(1)
Obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), and his twin brother, Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book "The Orchid Thief," he writes himself into his own movie. The various stories crash into one another exploding into a wildly imaginative film. (official distributor synopsis)
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