Arguably one of the most inventive and rule-breaking screenplays ever written, Being John Malkovich came from the crazed, genius mind of Charlie Kaufman, and was directed by equally unique Spike Jonze.
Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is a struggling street puppeteer whose puppets portray stories much too deep and tragic for children. In order to make a little money, Craig takes a job as a filing clerk for a company found on the seventh and a half floor of a building, a floor that most people find difficult to stand up straight in! It gets weirder. One day he accidentally discovers a door behind a filing cabinet, a door that just happens to be a portal into the brain of John Malkovich (played by the man himself)! For fifteen minutes, he experiences the ultimate way to escape his own dreary existence: He becomes John Malkovich! Afterwards, he falls from the sky, dumped onto the side of the New Jersey turnpike! With his beautiful co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener), they hatch a plan to let others into John's brain for just $200 a trip. When Craig's pet-obsessed wife (Cameron Diaz) has a go at being Malkovich, she/he meets Maxine and falls in love. This is a story cult fans and critics won't ever talking about.
