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JOHN GRANT on Adaptation (2002, directed by Spike Jonze)

was sort of unlike anything else I’d ever seen. I loved every character, and I thought the story was really incredible. I connected with both of the twins [played by Nicolas Cage] really deeply, but mostly the main one, Charlie Kaufman [also the name of the film’s screenwriter]. I suppose it was just one of those really selfish things where I saw myself in that character, and so I

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