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Dec 3, 1999 · Being John Malkovich: Directed by Spike Jonze. With John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Ned Bellamy, Eric Weinstein. A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Spike Jonze
- 1999-12-03
Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American surrealist fantasy comedy drama film [3] [4] directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, both making their feature film debut. The film stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, with John Malkovich as a satirical version of himself. Cusack plays a puppeteer who finds a portal that ...
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Apr 5, 2021 · Kaufman had completed the script in 1994, a full five years before the movie’s release, which means it was circulating Hollywood for a long time, and several different studios were attached to Being John Malkovich before it was released by Focus Features.
Oct 29, 1999 · What an experience. Maxine pressures him to turn it into a business, charging people to spend their 15 minutes inside Malkovich. The movie handles this not as a gimmick but as the opportunity for material that is somehow funny and serious, sad and satirical, weird and touching, all at once. Malkovich himself is part of the magic.
Rated: 4.5/5 Aug 30, 2019 Full Review David Germain Associated Press Fabulously funny and delightfully disturbed, "Being John Malkovich'' is the ultimate voyeur movie, a dark and at times ...
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- John Cusack
Being John Malkovich is all about, ironically enough, beingyourself. When Craig enters the mind of John Malkovich, he believes he is seeing the world through a new set of eyes—but really, it’s just him. He might be in a different body, but it’s still his same mind. And, thus, his same fears, his same anxieties.
One day filing clerk Craig Schwartz (Cusack) accidentally discovers a door at his job, containing a portal into the mind of character actor John Malkovich (played by Malkovich himself). For 15 minutes, he experiences the ultimate head trip - He is John Malkovich.
