STREAM ANYTIME with Prime Video from $12.99

$22.50

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns

FREE delivery Wednesday, January 4 if you spend $25 on items shipped by Amazon

In Stock.

[{"displayPrice":"$22.50","priceAmount":22.50,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"22","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"50","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"BKEDOR2NQSHz8RpEmdy4Cn4QMxOqVKECasL%2B1btz6ss%2BWbVPXi1Mn8nqpzZ%2B9uDYY68wxguEM4GKEWB1jrUci2KE7eFSLdlbhLmt2es552EGwrgu2dVjrzzCkocVXhsvOM2TNnuZqWAp17%2Fmh28Bfg%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW"}]

$$22.50 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Enhancements you chose aren't available for this seller. Details

${cardName} not available for the seller you chose

${cardName} unavailable for quantities greater than ${maxQuantity}.

Secure transaction

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Details

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Return policy: Returnable until Jan 31, 2023

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$26.18
+ $3.99 shipping

Sold by: MovieMars

Added

Not added

$33.76
& FREE Shipping

Sold by: Damian Exports

Added

Not added

$31.94
+ $3.99 shipping

Sold by: newtownvideos

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Image Unavailable

Image not available for
Color:

Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available
To view this video download Flash Player

Adaptation [4K UHD]

Nicolas Cage (Actor), Tilda Swinton (Actor), Spike Jonze (Director) Rated:

Format: Blu-ray

1,670 ratings

IMDb7.7/10.0

Amazon's Choice for "adaptation 4k"

-27% $22.50

List Price: $30.99

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime

FREE Returns

Additional 4K options

Edition

Discs

Price

New from

Used from

4K
December 6, 2022

"Please retry"

4K + Digital

$22.50

$13.10

Watch Instantly with

Rent

Buy

Adaptation

$3.99

$12.99

Enhance your purchase

Genre	Drama
Format	Subtitled, 4K
Contributor	Vincent Landay, Ed Saxon, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Spike Jonze, Adaptation Productions, Inc., Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Demme, Nicolas Cage See more
Language	English

Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping.

Frequently bought together

Total price:

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Choose items to buy together.

by Nicolas Cage Blu-ray
$22.50
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Jan 4
by John Travolta Blu-ray
$19.59
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Jan 4
by Harvey Keitel Blu-ray
$14.70
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Get it as soon as Wednesday, Jan 4

Customers also search

Page 1 of 1Page 1 of 1

From the manufacturer

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this award winning film in 4K UHD

A screenwriter struggling to adapt a book decides to insert himself into the screenplay, with unexpected results.

When successful yet insecure screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is hired to adapt a nonfiction book about a fanatical orchid breeder, John Laroche (Chris Cooper), he is completely stumped. Though on the surface the book is about Laroche's flower-poaching adventures in the Florida Everglades, it's also about the desire in all of us to experience passion. This longing plagues the book's author, Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), and, Charlie realizes, himself as well. It doesn't help that Charlie's twin brother, Donald (also Nicolas Cage), who has moved in with him, writes and immediately sells a screenplay. When in desperation Charlie decides to use his own dilemma as a framework for the script, he inadvertently sets in motion a chain of events impacting the lives of all the characters.

Product Description

Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Cooper), NewYorker journalist Susan Orlean (Streep), Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage), and his twin brother, Donald (also Cage). As Charlie struggles to adapt Orlean's best-selling book "The OrchidThief," he writes himself into his own movie. The various stories crash into one another exploding into a wildly imaginative film. ADAPTATION, the year's most talked about movie, is at once a hilarious drama and a moving comedy.

Product details

Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.71 x 5.32 x 0.44 inches; 2.47 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Spike Jonze
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, 4K
Release date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2022
Actors ‏ : ‎ Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Italian, German, Portuguese, French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Norwegian, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Italian, Danish, Korean, Swedish, German, English, Portuguese, Turkish, French, Polish, Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ Vincent Landay, Jonathan Demme, Ed Saxon
Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BHTKF62S
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #1,905 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #165 in Drama Blu-ray Discs

Customer Reviews:
1,670 ratings

Customer reviews

5 star		70%
4 star		14%
3 star		8%
2 star		3%
1 star		5%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Reviews with images

See all customer images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

rodney porter

Good Movie!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2022

Verified Purchase

I’m remember seen this movie when it first came out on DVD. I rent it from “Hollywood Video” very good. Ten years ago I bought the on digital HD on VUDU. Today I got my on 4K Blu-Ray. Great transfer, looks good on Dolby Vision.

Helpful

A joyous, unique treat!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2005

Verified Purchase

I just finished watching this terrific movie again. ADAPTATION is truly one of those movies that actually grows richer upon a second viewing. The first time I saw it, I was blown away by the fantastic acting and enjoyed trying to follow the dynamics of the movies. I say "dynamics" rather than twists and turns, because on the surface, there are no twists. The movie just unspools "realistically" with a generous dose of carefully labeled flashbacks. But underneath, what we're really seeing is a movie that "twists" from straightforward storytelling to a movie that may actually be the playing out of the screenplay that is being written (which is what the movie is about).

Nicolas Cage plays Charles Kaufman, the screenwriter for BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, who has just been hired to write an adaptation of the bestselling THE ORCHID THIEF by Susan Orlean. Of course, the fun begins right there, because this movie is written by Charles Kaufman, who actually WAS hired to adapt THE ORCHID THIEF. Charles is a deeply neurotic and insecure person, prone to flop-sweats and bouts of either shyness or manic babbling. His internal dialogue, which we share from time to time, is a masterpiece of self-flaggelation. Charles lives with his twin brother Donald (also Cage), a sweet, simple person who idolizes the work Charles has done and also lives much more in the real world. Of course, Donald DOESN'T exist in our world. In the movie, we see how Charles becomes incapable of writing a screen play of Orlean's book, because he admires it so much, because it probably isn't ideal for a movie treatment and because Charles develops a fixation for Orleans (Meryl Streep).

From there we are shown glimpses of the story of THE ORCHID THIEF (Chris Cooper, Oscar-winner), how the man was arrested for poaching rare orchids in the swamps of Florida, and how his little story attracted reported Orlean, who went to interview the man and spent enough time with him to develop an entire book.

But as the movie progresses, the line between the "real" world and how Charles Kaufmann is beginning to reimagine Orlean's relationship with The Orchid Thief (La Rouche is his name). But there is never a clear demarcation showing when this spin into fantasy land is starting. But Orlean's adventures become more and more outrageous (an affair with LaRouche, drug use, etc.) that are blatant fictions.

And why does Charles fabricate fictional plot twists for his non-fiction screenplay. First, because his brother Donald has just out of the blue written a non-sensical action movie that has yield him a big contract and because Charles has attended (unwillingly) a screenwriting workshop and has clearly been influenced by all the "formula" he's being exhorted to incorporate into his work. His screenplay starts out as an exploration of the simple joy of loving flowers and becomes a silly action-flick.

But what's so fun about ADAPTATION is that we get to experience not only Charles difficulty in imagining a screenplay adaptation of THE ORCHID THIEF, but we get to SEE the story play out alongside it. It's three movies in one: the telling of the story of THE ORCHID THIEF, as written by Susan Orlean [by the way, there is one scene, not fiction, where LaRoche and his family are in a car accident that changes his life. It's undeniably one of the most gut-wrenchingly realistic car crashes ever put on screen. 10 seconds of film seared into your mind forever.], the telling of how a screenwriter named Charles Kaufman couldn't come up with a way to adapt the book and a totally fictional story of THE ORCHID THIEF and the screenwriter's twin brother. But they are totally intertwined. It sounds confusing, but the joy of this piece also lies in how clearly we follow it. At least, a halfway intelligent and attentive viewer will follow. This is not a wacky, slapstick movie. It's clever, smart and totally original. It's also very adult, and is meant for film viewers with some experience with watching and appreciating film.

Let me also say that Nicolas Cage gives one of his two or three best performances of all time (Oscar nominated). Meryl Streep (Oscar nominated) is sheer delight, reminding us that she must not be taken for granted...that she is totally able to play a real, flesh and blood American woman with no accent, and make her completely delightful. Chris Cooper deserved his Oscar win for his daring performance, which mixes lunacy and tragedy into one unique character. Everyone else gives very able support, especially Brian Cox as the screenwriting workshop leader. Here's a guy who simply cannot give less than a commanding performance, however small the role.

So, I very much recommend this most unique, funny, moving and well-presented film!

9 people found this helpful

Helpful

Gio

I Can't Quite Understand ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 12, 2010

Verified Purchase

... why I don't hate this film! It's pretentious, meandering, self-indulgent, self-referential -- everything that typifies post-modernist literature -- and plot-driven without a plot. But hate it I don't. I won't go so far as to say I love it, but I watched it intently and found myself defending it from a couple of people who thought it was "boring and confusing". It was not boring, to me at any rate, and not at all confusing. If anything, it might not have been confusing enough. The meta-meanings were awfully obvious.

The premise of the un-plot is that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has been hired to adapt a popular novel, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, but suffers pathetic 'writer's block' over the task, eventually becoming obsessed with the author, whom he's never met, and stalking her until he discovers a shocking secret. Well now, Charlie Kaufman is the actual screenwriter of Adaptation but "Charlie Kaufman" is played in the film by Nicolas Gage, who also plays Charlie Kaufman's twin brother "Donald", while the real Donald Kaufman is given shared credit for the screenplay. Susan Orlean is a real writer for The New Yorker magazine and she really did write a book titled The Orchid Thief. In the film, she's played by Meryl Streep. Ms. Orlean has to be a very Good Sport about her work, since it is "adapted" with demonic abandon and portrays her in activities (imagined) that must have scandalized her colleagues and friends. The film's Charlie Kaufman is neurotic to the point of comedy, which is in fact the chief point of the comedy. His brother is utterly neurosis-clean but a bit of a dimwit. The focal character of Orlean's book is a shady Floridian misfit named John Laroche, the 'Orchid Thief' of the title. Laroche is perceived on three levels by the film audience: as he is described by Orlean in her book, as he appears in the film in flashbacks being interviewed by Orlean for the book, and as he is envisioned by Kaufman on the basis only of reading the book under adaptation. Yes, it is a set of Chinese Boxes, mirrors reflecting mirrors, a play within a play within a play ...

... so why did I like it? For one thing, I expected it to be 'weird' and I almost knew I would like it. I sought it because I'd recently seen Charlie Kaufman's later movie "Synecdoche New York", which I considered the most interesting film of recent years. I'm working backwards through Kaufman's oeuvre. "Adaptation" isn't as good as "Synecdoche New York". In fact, it seems almost like a practice piece for the later film. But it's ambitious. AMBITIOUS! Precisely what most films, especially American film, are not. Its ambitions outweigh its pretensions. Also, the acting is incredibly good. Meryl Streep plays Susan Orlean as the evolving character the plot/unplot requires. Chris Cooper is perfect as Laroche; he's exactly the same person no matter who is perceiving him, and that person is as real as table salt. Nicolas Gage? Frankly, I didn't think the man could act at all. I thought he was one of those Hollywood icons who played the same guy, himself, in every film. Ho boy, he surprised me. In Adaptation he plays two guys, the two Kaufmans, side-by-side with totally different affect, plausibly distinct personalities. Even their sitting postures are distinguishable. The real Donald Kaufman, by the by, must be another Good Sport, considering what happens to his counterpart in the movie.

This is an intelligent movie, a movie for intellectual cinema fans. I can safely say that "you" will either relish its intelligence or find it painfully dull. But it won't be a choice that depends on the film; intelligence is in the mind of the beholder.

7 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Keith M

Bursting With Invention

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 6, 2017

Verified Purchase

They (the critics?) say that a film lives or dies on the strength of its screenplay, so how appropriate it is that one of the most inventive of all screenwriters, Charlie Kaufman (together with director Spike Jonze), should both dissect and subvert Kaufman’s own 'day job’ in this remarkable 2002 film. Reincarnated on screen in the form of two Nicolas Cages (playing Charlie and his fictional twin, Donald), the screenwriter’s persona is deliciously split in two – one (the real Charlie?) attempting to adapt (real-life) New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean’s (Meryl Streep) 'unfilmable’ book, The Orchid Thief, into a 'commercial screenplay’, whilst the other (Donald) ditches any notion of 'artistic creation’ and attempts to rehash any (and all) Hollywood plot clichés into a blockbuster of his own. In parallel, and in flashback, we get the real-life story of how Orlean, recognising the need for some form of genuine passion in her life, is taken in by Chris Cooper’s faux-environmentalist, arch-capitalist and purloiner of the 'evolutionary wonder orchid’ – thereby giving us to ponder (at least) two other dimensions (personal and scientific) to the film’s title.

As has happened before with Kaufman’s kaleidoscopic approach to film-making (notably in the later, thematically similar, Synedoche, New York) there is, arguably, too much going on here, but via the film’s mix of sharp (often very funny) dialogue, sterling acting performances and inventive visuals, it is hard not to be impressed by the sheer levels of conceptual invention at play. For me, the film is at its strongest during the antagonistic interplay (visually depicted on screen totally seamlessly) between Cage’s twins – the actor gets Charlie’s nervy, angst-ridden suffering of writer’s block to a tee, with a highlight sequence being where he resorts to visiting Brian Cox’s 'brutally honest’ real-life creative writing guru, Robert McKee, ('God help you if you use voiceover in your work!’). The personal/scientific thread encapsulated in two superb performances by Streep and Cooper (the latter an Oscar-winning one) is fascinating and, at times, touching, but given the way Kaufman’s screenplay develops, rather has the ground swept out from under it. Depending on your point of view (or what you ‘expect’ from cinema), this is either another clever, enjoyable facet of the film or the film-makers overdoing the 'having their cake and eating it’. Having bought into the satirical, contrived nature of the film, I would side with the former – even then, it’s still possible to enjoy a moment of poignancy at the denouement!

2 people found this helpful

J. Tucker

love, guns and murder are brought into play

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 11, 2015

Verified Purchase

I read the book "The Orchid Thief" first, then watched this film immediately afterwards. Knowing the book definitely helped. It's about the difficulty experienced by the screenplay writer in adapting the book (which has no real story as such; it's more about the obsessional nature of orchid lovers and the history/quirks of orchid collectors/lovers) into a film. In the end he settles for going against his desire to make a pure film about flowers which is true to the book, and turns it into a Hollywood style movie. Drugs, love, guns and murder are brought into play, none of which feature in the book. A social comment maybe, an insight into the nature of film making /screenplay adaptation. I enjoyed it but I can understand why those who had not read the book might have struggled to make sense of it.

2 people found this helpful

Wednesday D

Great value double pack - but one film is definitely stronger than the other

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 12, 2013

Verified Purchase

I'd seen Being John Malkovich when it originally came out, and knew that I loved the film as a quirky, unique story, with brilliant visual work, fantastic script and excellent acting - so seeing it again on DVD, I was pleasantly suprised to find that none of my memories were falsely exaggerated - this is a great film, through and through!

As a double pack, this film comes with Adaptation - touted as connected to the first film due to the protaganist of Adaptation being the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich - it's based on a true story, but changed so that it is actually a work of fiction... and is surreal, but in a different way to Malkovich. Meryl Streep is, as always, brilliant; but Nic Cage (though he tries his best) leaves me feeling a little let down by how he handles the central protagonist - although I can't quite put my finger on why. It just feels like the film is building up to something, but never quite gets there. A little disappointing in parts, but overall it is worth a watch and there are some rather good moments throughout.

If nothing else - it'll leave you wanting to pick up a copy of The Orchid Thief to read afterwards...

2 people found this helpful

Elfshopper197

An entertaining if different adult themed movie.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 9, 2018

Verified Purchase

I would recommend this DVD to persons aged fifteen or over. There is some partial nudity in this film. The theme of this movie is creative ambition. There is some swearing in the film, which is based on a true story. There are some scenes of drug use and homicide included. The performances in this film are good and the main menu is very easy to use. The sound quality is also good.

One person found this helpful

clint

Ruined a great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 1, 2020

Verified Purchase

Not sure what they’re trying to do here but basically ruined a great book.
Instead of recounting the full story of Susan meeting John Laroche it’s all about Nicolas Cage’s character navelgazing and playing with himself

See all reviews

Other Sellers on Amazon

Adaptation [4K UHD]

Enhance your purchase

Frequently bought together

Customers also search

From the manufacturer

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of this award winning film in 4K UHD

A screenwriter struggling to adapt a book decides to insert himself into the screenplay, with unexpected results.

Product Description

Product details

Videos

Customer reviews

Reviews with images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries