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Spike Jonez directed Adaption (2002) from a script by
Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman.

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Charlie Kaufman's Website (for downloading the screenplay drafts)
beingcharliekaufman.com/index.php/adaptation

Susan Orlean's original story "Orchid Fever"
susanorlean.com/articles/orchid_fever.html

Interview: What Susan Orlean thought of the movie:
gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-04/16/susan-orlean-adaptation-orchid-thief-rin-tin-tin
Robert McKee's Website "Story" mckeestory.com

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Trailer for Adaptation
youtube.com/watch?v=0HtZ2M4e_AM

My Review of Barton Fink
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Adaptation (2002)
114 mins.

Directed by Spike Jonze
Produced by Jonathan Demme, Vincent Landay, Edward Saxon
Screenplay by Kaufman, Donald Kaufman
Based on The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Starring
Nicolas Cage
Meryl Streep
Chris Cooper*
Cara Seymour
Tilda Swinton
Brian Cox
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography Lance Acord
Edited by Eric Zumbrunnen
Production company
Good Machine
Intermedia
Propaganda Films
Saturn Films
Distributed by Columbia Pictures

*Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
Chris Cooper's acceptance speech
youtube.com/watch?v=O1SR-LHpNhc
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