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Featured Actress: Judy Greer - From the "Being John Malkovich" duo of director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman comes this tricky, self-reflective romp boasting Nicolas Cage in two roles. He's the real-life Kaufman, struggling to adapt author Susan Orlean's (Meryl Streep) novel "The Orchid Thief," about a roguish Everglades flower lover (Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner Chris Cooper), into a movie. And he's Donald, Charlie's (fictitious) twin brother, a neophyte filmwriter hoping to cash in with a formulaic action script. Really weird, loopy movie, not for people who like their movies going from Point A to Point B with no detours inbetween. Cage is trying to regain some of his thesp cred with this flick and he does manage to win some of it back. With Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Brian Cox as screenwriting guru Robert McKee. 114 min.
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