Adaptation Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 114 mins
- Year produced:
- 2002
- Director:
- Spike Jonze
- Cast:
- Meryl Streep
- Nicolas Cage
- Tilda Swinton
Adaptation is a film written by Charlie Kaufman about a screenwriter called Charlie Kaufman (but played by Nicolas Cage) and his twin brother Donald (also played by Nicolas Cage). And that’s just the start of the complications of this hugely original and very funny comedy that takes apart the way Hollywood movies are normally constructed and sneaks in a tense film-within-a-film adventure story set in the alligator-filled Florida swamps almost as a bonus.
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Fascinating facts
The credits include Donald Kaufman as the co-writer. He is also featured as a character in the movie, and the movie is dedicated "In loving memory" of Donald (at the end of the credits). But Donald is just a fictional character himself!
Donald Kaufman has a credit as one of the writers of Adaptation - even though there is no firm evidence that he exists.