Adaptation

Released Date
December 6, 2002
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
Genre
Comedy
Rating
R
Budget
$19,000,000
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$22,498,520 + $10,302,653 = $32,801,173
74
Meryl Streep

as Susan Orlean

60
Nicolas Cage

as Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman

46
Maggie Gyllenhaal

as Caroline Cunningham

63
Tilda Swinton

as Valerie Thomas

48
Judy Greer

as Alice

77
Brian Cox

as Robert McKee

72
Chris Cooper

as John Laroche

56
Ron Livingston

as Marty Bowen

60
Cara Seymour

 

About Adaptation

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

About

A Los Angeles screenwriter becomes wrapped up in attempting to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen but continually fails. The film is loosely based off the book "The Orchid Thief."

Trivia

Nicolas Cage plays the lead and the lead's twin brother, Donald. Chris Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Role.