Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.
- based on novel or book
- marriage crisis
- alligator
- writer's block
- orchid
- writer
- twins
- cynical
- philosophical
- satirical
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Nicolas Cage
Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
Meryl Streep
Susan Orlean
Chris Cooper
John Laroche
Tilda Swinton
Valerie Thomas
- Jay Tavare — Matthew Osceola
- Litefoot — Russell
- Roger Willie — Randy
- Jim Beaver — Ranger Tony
- Cara Seymour — Amelia Kavan
- Doug Jones — Augustus Margary
- Gary Farmer — Buster Baxley
- Peter Jason — Defense Attorney
- Gregory Itzin — Prosecutor
- Curtis Hanson — Orlean's Husband
- Agnes NaDene Baddoo — Orlean Dinner Guest
- Directed
- Spike Jonze
- Written
- Charlie Kaufman
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 2,865 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Propaganda Films, Good Machine, Intermedia, Beverly Detroit Studios, Clinica Estetico
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
