Adaptation.

Year: 2002

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Doug Jones, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton

Duration: 115 min

An account of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's attempt to adapt Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, which is the story of John Laroche, a plant dealer who clones rare orchids then sells them to collectors. We see the action of the book as we see Kaufman struggle to adapt it into a movie. This is presumably a somewhat true story, as Charlie Kaufman is the real life screenwriter of Adaptation.—Jason Smith

Genre: Action   Comedy   Drama