Adaptation.

Adaptation. (2002)

Timing: 1:55 (115 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2002-12-06

Country

United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Good Machine, Propaganda Films, Intermedia, Beverly Detroit, Clinica Estetico

Genre

Comedy, Crime, Drama

Budget

$19 000 000

Revenue

$32 801 173

Website

https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/adaptation

Director

Spike Jonze

Actors

Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Jonathan Demme, Edward Saxon, Vincent Landay, Charlie Kaufman, Charlie Kaufman, Peter Saraf

Operator

Lance Acord

Composer

Carter Burwell

Artist

Audition

Justine Arteta, Kim Davis-Wagner

Editing

Eric Zumbrunnen, Andrew J. Sacks
All team (102)

• The film is based on Susan Orlean's novel «The Orchid Thief» (1998).
• Donald, as an example of a film about flowers, mentions «Flowers for Algernon». Charlie replies to him: «It’s not about flowers; besides, it's not a movie». In fact, there are two adaptations of this book – the film «Charly» (1968) and the television film «Flowers for Algernon» (2000).
• Robert McKee personally suggested to the producers that Brian Cox play him in the film.
• Donald Kaufman is credited as a co-writer of the screenplay in the credits. He also appears in the film as one of the characters, and the film is dedicated «to his bright memory». In reality, Donald is a fictional character.
• Tom Hanks was initially planned to play the dual role of the Kaufman brothers.
• During filming, Nicolas Cage had to wear artificial prosthetics to appear overweight.
• Meryl Streep was interested in the role of Susan even before auditions and even agreed to a salary reduction to get the film's budget approved.
• Initially, Laroche was supposed to be played by John Turturro. Chris Cooper considered the role too challenging, but agreed to take it on after persuasion from his wife.
• Albert Finney, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer all auditioned for the role of Robert McKee.
• John Cusack, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Lance Eekord, and Spike Jonze are uncredited; they played cameos of themselves in the filming episode of the movie 'Being John Malkovich'.
• In one scene, Charlie comes home and checks his mail. He stands in front of a mirror while his brother Donald speaks to him from behind. Donald's reflection in the mirror is the real Charlie Kaufman (the film's screenwriter).
• Preparing for filming, Chris Cooper grew long hair and lost weight. He used dentures to create the illusion of a toothless mouth. In choosing the exact image of his character, Cooper, with the permission of director Spike Jonze, repeatedly played numerous takes of the same scenes.
• In one scene, Charlie comes home and checks his mail. He stands in front of a mirror, while his brother Donald speaks to him from behind. Donald's reflection in the mirror is actually Charlie Kaufman (the film's screenwriter).
• In the original script, the character played by Chris Cooper was killed by a cryptid called the Bog Creature (a cryptid is an animal or plant whose existence is denied by mainstream science, but which is considered possible by proponents of pseudosciences such as cryptozoology or cryptobotany). Robert McKee (played by Brian Cox in the film) asked to have the cryptid removed from the script. He said the following: “I agree to become a character in the film, but I do not agree to become a character in a bad film.”