DIRECTOR: Spike Jonze
STUDIO: Intermedia
RATING: R
RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2002
REVIEW BY CATHERINE KRUMMEY
For all the hype this movie got in the award season, this movie was not that good. The 2003 Oscar voters must of been sympathetic towards the people who took on deformities, first Nicole Kidman's big nose in The Hours, then Cooper's missing teeth for Adaptation. Cooper did give the best performance in the movie, about screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) and his struggle to adapt Susan Orlean's (Streep) novel, The Orchid Thief, for the big screen. While this movie was decent for the most part, the last 20 minutes or so were really bazaar, taking the movie rapidly downhill.