Being John Malkovich

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

John Malkovich	John Malkovich
Orson Bean	Dr. Lester
John Cusack	Craig Schwartz
Cameron Diaz	Lotte Schwartz
Catherine Keener	Maxine
Ned Bellamy	Derek Mantini
K.K. Dodds	Wendy
Reginald C. Hayes	Don
Mary Kay Place	Floris
Byrne Piven	Captain Mertin
Eric Weinstein	Father at Puppet Show
Madison Lanc	Daughter at Puppet Show
Octavia Spencer	Woman in Elevator

Director	Spike Jonze; Jonze
Producer	Steve Golin; Charlie Kaufman; Michael Stipe
Writer	Charlie Kaufman; Kaufman
Cinematography	Lance Acord
Musician	Elmer Bernstein; Carter Burwell; Björk; Béla Bartók

When a puppeteer with a dark side moonlights (or rather sunlights) in the business world it turns out the business world is not as dull as he had expected. While working on the green-lit, low-ceilinged 7 1/2-th floor of an office building, Craig (John Cusack) finds a small portal, hidden behind a filing cabinet, that leads into the head of John Malkovich (himself). After 15 minutes of allowing him to lurk in Malkovich's mundane routines, the wormhole jettisons the scruffy, peevish Craig out beside the New Jersey Turnpike. Soon Malkovich haunting becomes an obsession for him, his sexy coworker Maxine (Catherine Keener) and his weird, frumpy wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz), to the point where they begin to make life decisions based on their time in someone else's life.