Adaptation [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 07601 | Columbia TriStar Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French Series: SuperbitPublication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.Description: 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0767879805
  • 9780767879804
Uniform titles:
  • Adaptation (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .A337838566 2003
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Lance Acord ; editor, Eric Zumbrunnen ; music, Carter Burwell ; costume designer, Casey Storm ; production designer, K.K. Barrett.
Awards:
  • 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).
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal.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.
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DVD, region 1 ; widescreen ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround, DTS surround.

In English or dubbed French; optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.

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

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

Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.

Based on the book "The orchid thief" by Susan Orlean.

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.

Special features: theatrical trailer, director and cast filmographies.

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

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).

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