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  read more... )hrough Malkovich's eyes before being systematically ejected from the room and onto the New Jersey turnpike. The man then rents out Malkovich's head to others, eventually letting his wife inside where she falls in love with another woman who, in turn, thinks she has fallen in love with John Malkovich.

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R, 1 hr. 52 min.

Directed by: Spike Jones, Spike Jonze

Released: October 29, 1999

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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!"


    Feature films as remarkably audacious and endlessly inventive as Being John Malkovich are few and far between. ...

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  • April 27, 2009
    The 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 )
  • January 7, 2009
    So 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 )
  • November 21, 2008
    Wonderfully absurdist. You either get it and like it or you don't. Don't think there's a middle ground here.
  • November 19, 2008
    The 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.
  • June 5, 2009
    A 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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View more Being John... reviews at RottenTomatoes.com
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains. full review

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  • perfectgentlemn
    July 20, 2008
    Oh man, this movie was so off the wall, I loved it. John Malkovich is the best too.
  • gaerniak
    February 4, 2007
    Great paradoxes and black comedy won't keep you from not liking this one.
  • daniboy2099
    December 23, 2006
    Great Movie, John Malkovich is Awesome!

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