Very clever about being very clever, Adaptation stars Nicolas Cage as Charlie Kaufman – the real-life screenwriter who wrote Adaptation, in which ‘Kaufman’ struggles to adapt a novel into a movie and eventually writes himself into his screenplay. It’s all a hoot for struggling scribes and Hollywood insiders, if ultimately less insightful than Kaufman’s previous screenplays for Being John Malkovich and Human Nature. From director Spike Jonze, who also helmed Being John Malkovich.
