Adaptation

Resource Information

The work Adaptation represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Noble County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Adaptation

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures presents in association with Intermedia Films a Magnet/Clínica Estético production ; producers, Edward Saxon, Vincent Landay, Jonathan Demme ; screenplay writers, Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman ; director, Spike Jonze

Contributor

• Streep, Meryl
• Swinton, Tilda
• Zumbrunnen, Eric
• Seymour, Cara
• Clinica Estetico, Ltd
• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Intermedia Films
• Acord, Lance
• Barrett, K. K
• Burwell, Carter
• Cage, Nicolas, 1965-
• Cooper, Chris, 1951-
• Cox, Brian, 1946-
• Demme, Jonathan, 1944-2017
• Greer, Judy, 1975-
• Gyllenhaal, Maggie, 1977-
• Jonze, Spike
• Kaufman, Charlie, 1958-
• Landay, Vincent
• Saxon, Edward
• Storm, Casey

Subject

• Comedy films
• Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc -- Drama
• Orlean, Susan -- Film adaptations
• Screenwriters -- California | Los Angeles -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Film adaptations
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Dark comedy films

Genre

• Films for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• trueFilm adaptations
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• trueDrama
• Dark comedy films
• Comedy films

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng

Summary

Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot

Member of

• Superbit

Awards note

• Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Chris Cooper) in 2002.
• Academy Award nominee (2002) for Best Actor (Cage), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Streep), and Best Writing for adapted screenplay (Kaufman and Kaufman).

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Lance Acord ; editor, Eric Zumbrunnen ; music, Carter Burwell ; costume designer, Casey Storm ; production designer, K.K. Barrett

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for language, sexuality, some drug use and violent images

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.A337838566 2003

PerformerNote

Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Runtime

114

Series statement

Superbit

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action