Being John Malkovich (1999)

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being john malkovich

ORIGINAL TITLE

Being John Malkovich

YEAR

1999

RUNNING TIME

112 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Spike Jonze

SCREENWRITER

Charlie Kaufman

COMPOSER

Carter Burwell

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Lance Acord

CAST

John Cusack, Cameron Díaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, Charlie Sheen, Octavia Spencer

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Universal Pictures presents a Propaganda Films / Single Cell Pictures production

AWARDS

1999: 3 Nominations for Oscar: Director, Supporting Actress (Catherine Keener), Original Screenplay
1999: 4 Nominations for Golden Globe, including Best Movie-Comedy and Screenplay
1999: BAFTA Awards: Best Screenplay. Nominated for Best Sup. Actress and Editing
1999: Los Angeles Film Critics: Best Screenplay
1999: Nominated for Cesar: Best Foreign Language Picture
1999: NY Film Critics Circle: 3 Awards, including Best First Work
1999: Venice Film Festival: FIPRESCI Award
1999: Critics' Choice Awards: Breakthrough Performer (Jonza). Top 10 - Pictures of the Year

GENRE

Sci-Fi. Comedy. Fantasy | Surrealism. Cult movie

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Manhattan, the present. Under pressure from his wife Lotte, street-puppeteer Craig Schwartz takes a job as a clerk with LesterCorp., run by Doctor Lester, a company located on the low-ceilinged seventh-and-a-half floor of an office tower. He falls in love with his co-worker Maxine. Craig discovers a hidden door leading to a passage which sucks him into the head of actor John Malkovich, whose life he experiences for 15 minutes before being ejected on to the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. Craig introduces Lotte to being John Malkovich, and while she is inside him, she/Malkovich makes love to Maxine; the two women fall in love, but can only enjoy each other physically when Lotte is in Malkovich.
Craig and Maxine start a business charging people to be Malkovich. Eventually Malkovich rumbles their scam and enters his portal himself, discovering a world where everyone is him. Craig and Lotte struggle for possession of Maxine. Eventually, Craig uses his puppeteering skills to enter Malkovich permanently and turns Malkovich into a world-famous puppeteer; Maxine becomes his lover. Lester explains to Lotte that Malkovich is the latest in a line of conduits used by a secret society to enjoy eternal life in new bodies. Craig is forced out of Malkovich. Years later, Malkovich has joined the channellers; Lotte and Maxine are a happy couple with a daughter; Craig is inside their daughter, still in love with Maxine, now his mother.

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