Friday Night Flicks: Adaptation

Watch all four walls fall down in this super creative film about adapting Susan Orleans’ book The Orchid Thief into a film. Struggling for ideas, one of Nick Cage’s characters in the film (yeah he has two) says he’d think better with some coffee. And a muffin. But what kind of muffin?

What transpires from there is a relatable series of anxieties and wrong turns that are anything but cliche. Get that Criterion Channel subscription already and watch it tonight.

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From Criterion Channel: This brilliantly inventive head trip from the feverish imaginations of director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman stars Nicolas Cage as . . . Charlie Kaufman, a successful yet insecure screenwriter who, when he begins writing himself into an adaptation of the nonfiction book “The Orchid Thief,” sets into motion a dizzying chain of events. Continually self-destructing and reinventing itself with whiplash-inducing abandon, ADAPTATION. collapses the rules of storytelling as it turns the art of screenwriting and the act of moviemaking inside out.