MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Jonze
Genres: Comedy Drama
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The creative team behind Being_John_Malkovich -- director Spike_Jonze and screenwriter Charlie_Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie_Kaufman (Nicolas_Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the success of Being_John_Malkovich, has been hired to write a script adapted from the nonfiction book -The Orchid Thief by Susan_Orlean. But while Charlie is obsessive about his work, he's also intensely paranoid, given to deep depression, socially inept, and terrified of talking to women, qualities which are making it difficult to get on with his work or hold on to his tenuous relationship with girlfriend Amelia (Cara_Seymour). Meanwhile, Charlie's identical twin brother, Donald Kaufman (also played by Cage), has shown up to move in with his brother. Emotionally, Donald is Charlie's polar opposite -- a loudmouthed, over-confident, superficial party animal who has an easy way with the ladies. Donald has decided to follow his brother's footsteps and take up screenwriting as well, but embracing the dictates of screenwriting tutor Robert McKee (Brian_Cox), he's cranking out a clich

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