1999 | United States | Fiction

Being John Malkovich

  • English English 113 mins
  • Director | Spike Jonze
  • Writer | Charlie Kaufman
  • Producer | Michael Stipe, Sandy Stern, Steve Golin, Vincent Landay

STATUS: Released

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Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Then director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman have the movie for you. Melancholy marionettes, office drudgery, a frizzy-haired Cameron Diaz—but that’s not all! Surrealism, possession, John Cusack, a domesticated primate, Freud, Catherine Keener, non sequiturs, and absolutely no romance! But wait: get your Being John Malkovich now and we’ll throw in emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and extra Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich!

Surreal Comedy Possession Absurd Mind-bending
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