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Charlie Kaufman. Writer: I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Avid reader Charlie Kaufman wrote plays and made short films as a young student. He moved from Massapequa, New York to West Hartford, Connecticut in 1972 where he attended high school.
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Feb 7, 2024 · Writer (and director) Charlie Kaufman’s singular mind brought us masterpieces like ‘Being John Malkovitch,’ ‘Adaptation,’ and curiosities like Netflix’s new ‘Orion and the Dark.’
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Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
- Ned and Stacey (1995 - 1997) - 64%
- Synecdoche, New York (2008) - 68%
- Get A Life (1990 - 1992) - 77%
- Confessions of A Dangerous Mind (2003) - 79%
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) - 83%
- Adaptation. (2002) - 91%
- Anomalisa (2015) - 92%
- Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (2004) - 93%
- Being John Malkovich (1999) - 93%
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Kaufman got his start working on TV as a writer and producer on sketch series like The Dana Carvey Show and The Edge, as well as short-lived sitcoms like The Trouble with Larry and Misery Loves Company. One of the more successful sitcoms Kaufman worked on is Ned and Stacey, which stars Debra Messing and Thomas Haden Church as two New Yorkers who de...
The first film Kaufman wrote and directed, Synecdoche, New York is an ambitious examination of the creative process told through the story of a theater director who spends the last half of his life producing an intricate, expansive play. Philip Seymour Hoffmanplays the director, Caden Cotard, whose production blurs the distinction between reality a...
Comedian Chris Elliott, known these days for playing Roland Schitt in Schitt's Creek, is the star of this Fox sitcom that aired for two seasons. Kaufman served as a writer alongside another notable name in comedy: Bob Odenkirk. RELATED: 5 Sitcoms From The 90s That Are Way Underrated (& 5 That Are Overrated) Get a Life sees Elliot playing a 30-year-...
Kaufman penned the screenplay for this insane biopic about the life of game show host Chuck Barris, who claimed he was recruited by the CIA to serve as a spy during the Cold War. Sam Rockwell gives a brilliant and crazed performanceas Barris in the film, which co-stars Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, and George Clooney. Clooney is also the director ...
Kaufman's latest venture is a long, circuitous exercise in subverting all narrative expectations in film. Written and directed by Kaufman, I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a Netflix filmthat stars newcomer Jessie Buckley as a young woman who agrees to meet her new boyfriend's parents. Jesse Plemons co-stars as Jake, the woman's boyfriend, whose par...
Nicolas Cage plays a fictionalized version of Kaufman and his twin brother Donald in Spike Jonze's layered, experimental take on adapting a book into a screenplay. Kaufman wrote the script for Adaptation., which he later admitted resulted from an intense period of writer's block. RELATED: Nicolas Cage's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes ...
Kaufman flexes his stop-motion skills with Anomalisa, which he wrote and directed with the help of producer Duke Johnson. Far from a light animated feature, this film is a tense psychological drama about a traveling customer service expert who perceives everyone as having the same voice and the same face. Voiced by David Thewlis, Michael Stone live...
Kaufman's singular take on love and romance reaches new, hallucinatory heights in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Directed by Michel Gondry and written by Kaufman, the film stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as a former couple who decide to have their memories of each other erased at a special facility. The result is a nonlinear, memory-based...
Being John Malkovich is the feature film debut for both Kaufman as writer and Spike Jonze as director, who later collaborated on Adaptation. A magical, post-modern fairy tale, the dark comedy stars John Cusack as a pony-tailed puppeteer who discovers a hidden door in an office building that leads into the mind of actor John Malkovich. Malkovich wor...
Screen Rant lists and reviews every project by the indie auteur, from his '90s sitcoms to his latest Netflix film. Find out which of his works are the best and worst according to critics and audiences.
Charles Stuart Kaufman (/ ˈ k ɔː f m ə n /; born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
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