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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its gleefully impossible premise becomes a sharply observed, melancholy comedy about identity, desire, and creative frustration—matching Adaptation.’s self-aware structure and off-kilter humanity.
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Why this pick
A more aching, expansive companion to Adaptation.: artistic obsession and private anxiety continuously reshape reality, with intricate nesting that remains grounded in vulnerable character detail.
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Why this pick
This cynical, nimble Hollywood satire shares Adaptation.’s pleasure in exposing screenwriting formulas while maintaining a slippery, darkly comic story of its own.
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Why this pick
A blocked writer sent to create commercial entertainment finds the assignment curdling into surreal unease. It has Adaptation.’s anxious creative interiority and mordant industry satire.
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Why this pick
Handmade visual invention gives shape to an insecure dreamer’s inner life. Like Adaptation., it turns romantic awkwardness and artistic paralysis into playful, emotionally sincere metafiction.
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01 / THE STORY
The self-loathing Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay adaptation for Susan Orlean's ''The Orchid Thief''. Kaufman is struggling with anxiety, social phobia, depression, and low self esteem. His twin brother, Donald, has moved into his house and is taking advantage of living rent-free. Donald decides to become a screenwriter like Charlie and attends one of Robert McKee's famous seminars.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman
Susan Orlean
John Laroche
Valerie Thomas
Marty Bowen
Robert McKee
Alice the Waitress
Caroline Cunningham
