Being John Malkovich
Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Cusack
A man takes a new job on the 7th-and-a-half floor of an office building and stumbles upon a membranous room that leads inside the head of stage and screen actor John Malkovich. There he can see life t...( read more
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DVD Released: May 2, 2000
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April 30, 2009"You see the world through John Malkovich's eyes. Then after about 15 minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike!"
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Feature films as remarkably audacious and endlessly inventive as Being John Malkovich are few and far between. ... -
April 27, 2009The idea of a small door in the 7.5th floor of a New York building leading into actor John Malkovich's mind has to be one of the oddest, most insane and funnest of movie history. The movie behind this idea is just as crazy, funny and wonderfully weird. The fact alone that Malkovi... ...( read more )
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January 7, 2009So having watched Charlie Kaufman's output in reverse chronological order, it's fascinating to see how he's developed as a writer and the themes that pervade his work. Perhaps his greatest strength, aided and abetted immaculately by Spike Jonze, is his ability to stitch together ... ...( read more )
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November 21, 2008Wonderfully absurdist. You either get it and like it or you don't. Don't think there's a middle ground here.
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November 19, 2008The first weird experiment from the contemporary maestro of originality. Everyone involved acts decently and the laughs pile up as you delve deeper and deeper into Malkovich's and Kaufman's mind.
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June 5, 2009A very mysterious film. There were weird elements in the film. One of them is the 7 1/2 floor. It was so mysterious in the sense that the size of the floor doesn't really affect the story but it became a necessity in the film. There was a feeling of sadness and emptiness w... ...( read more )
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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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July 20, 2008Oh man, this movie was so off the wall, I loved it. John Malkovich is the best too.
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