Adaptation (5 stars)

Adaptation is another joint project by the brilliant team of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, the men who brought us Being John Malkovich. Adaptation stars Nicolas Cage as Kaufman as he's trying to write the screen play for the widely popular book The Orchid Thief. Fresh off his success of Malkovich, Kaufman thinks he has wonderful ideas as to the direction of script and keeping true to the original script. He struggles at trying to put them on paper and struggles with his own self confidence when his brother Donald succeeds in getting a script optioned after attending a two day seminar on script writing.

The movie then takes a few wild left turns, much like Malkovich does, that I don't want to ruin for people who may not have seen the movie. If you haven't, I highly suggest you do, as it is one of the most bizarre movie experiences you'll have.