Being John Malkovich (1999)

	John Malkovich	John Malkovich
	Orson Bean	Dr. Lester
	John Cusack	Craig Schwartz
	Cameron Diaz	Lotte Schwartz
	Catherine Keener	Maxine
	Ned Bellamy	Derek Mantini
	K.K. Dodds	Wendy
	Reginald C. Hayes	Don
	Mary Kay Place	Floris
	Byrne Piven	Captain Mertin
	Bill M. Ryusaki	Mr. Hiroshi
	Charlie Sheen	Charlie

Director

Spike Jonze

Producer

Steve Golin
Charlie Kaufman

Writer/Composer

Charlie Kaufman

Cinematography

Lance Acord

Music

Carter Burwell

Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it’s mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

Edition Details
Edition	Special
Distributor	Universal Studios
Release Date	11/5/2002
Packaging	Keep Case
Screen Ratio	Widescreen (1.85:1)
Subtitles	English; French; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks	Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital Surround [English]
Layers	Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Location	Personal Library
Owner	Deitz
Links	+ Review: NY Times (1999) + Review: Roger Ebert (1999) ‡ Wikipedia Being John Malkovich at Core for Movies IMDB TheMovieDb.org

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References
Lists	‡ 50 Outstanding GLBT-Themed Films by Jim Clark

A weird, quirky, funny, entertaining, universally acclaimed film, which after nearly two decades, has held up well · It is a fascinating examinations of the nature of identity · What’s especially of interest is the complicated and whimsical way the movie deals with sexual identity.