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     Nicolas Cage

     Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman
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     Meryl Streep

     Susan Orlean
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     Chris Cooper

     John Laroche
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     Tilda Swinton

     Valerie
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     Cara Seymour

     Amelia Kavan
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     Litefoot

     Russell

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Adaptation_(film)Adaptation (film) - Wikipedia

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   It features an ensemble cast led by Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper, with Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in supporting roles. Kaufman based Adaptation on his struggles to adapt Susan Orlean 's 1998 nonfiction book The Orchid Thief while suffering from writer's block. It involves ...

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4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0268126Adaptation. (2002) - IMDb

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   Feb 14, 2003 · Adaptation.: Directed by Spike Jonze. With Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper. A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

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   • Genre: Comedy, Drama

   • Director: Spike Jonze
   • Release Date: 2003-02-14

5. www.historyvshollywood.com › reelfaces › adaptationAdaptation Movie True Story - The Real Susan Orlean and John ...

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   Jun 18, 2013 · Adaptation Movie True Story - The Real Susan Orlean and John Laroche. VIDEOS. Adaptation: History vs. Hollywood. Starring Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper. based on the book "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean. By Kevin Lang | Published June 18, 2013. THE CAST VS. REAL LIFE.

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   Does Susan Orlean appear in adaptation?

   • Does Susan Orlean make an appearance in the movie Adaptation? The real Susan Orlean did shoot a supermarket scene with Nicolas Cage, but it was cut from the final edit of the film. Does Charlie Kaufman really have a brother named Donald?

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   Is adaptation a true story?

   • Charlie Kaufman 's screenplay for "Adaptation." (2002) has it three ways. It is wickedly playful in its construction, it gets the story told, and it doubles back and kids itself. There is also the sense that to some degree it's true: that it records the torments of a screenwriter who doesn't know how the hell to write a movie about orchids.

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   Who is Susan Orlean in 'the Orchid Thief'?

   • Laroche is caught at the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park and the ensuing trial captures the attention of New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep). Laroche and Susan become great friends, with Susan writing The Orchid Thief.

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   Who is Susan Orlean?

   • On January 21, 2003, Susan Orlean sat down with Chicago area radio talk show host John Williams to discuss her, at the time, new book, The Orchid Thief. Susan talks about going to awards shows for the movie Adaptation and seeing celebrities. She speaks of orchids and the orchid thief, John Laroche. It's an informative interview.

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   Laroche is caught at the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park and the ensuing trial captures the attention of New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep). Laroche and Susan become great friends, with Susan writing The Orchid Thief.

8. www.rogerebert.com › great-movie-adaptation-2002Adaptation movie review & film summary (2002) | Roger Ebert

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   Sep 18, 2008 · The movie is inspired by The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, a best seller expanded from an article in the New Yorker. It involves mankind's fascination for these extraordinary flowers, the blood that has been spilled in collecting them, their boundless illustration of Darwin's ideas about natural selection and a contemporary orchid hunter in ...

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    Dec 6, 2002 · John Laroche (Chris Cooper) tries to help journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) understand the true beauty of the orchid species, in Columbia Pictures' unconventional comedy Adaptation.

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    Mar 2, 2024 · “Adaptation,” albeit running the risk of being perceived as a true story, is not true to its material, just like the character Kaufman fails to remain loyal to Susan’s book, “The Orchid Thief.” Not only did the sensations in the third act not happen, the character of Donald Kaufman is entirely a jotted-up fiction too.