Being John Malkovich (1999)

Spike Jones and Charlie Kaufman had a baby and it's name is John Malkovich. What a weird ass movie this is! I was always curious how this film used John Malkovich and it used him in ways I never thought possible in film. Yet, this movie exists and it also happens to be fantastic. This movie is never boring or unoriginal. It's creativity is seeping from every inch of it's screenplay written by Kaufman, who is still making head scratching romance films today. Yes, this is a romance film of sorts. There's a love triangle with John Malkovich at the center of it and that's really all you need to know. John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and of course Malkovich, all do a great job of bringing this (seemingly) nonsensical script to life, which must have been tough. Resulting in a film that manages to be just as human as Malkovich himself.

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