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Being John Malkovich
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
22 July 1928, Burlington, Vermont, USA
24 April 1964, USA
1965
28 July 1967, USA
18 December 1963, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
14 October 1936
15 July 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 October 1969, Rockville, Maryland, USA
June 25, 2012
an essential existentialist text.
June 14, 2012
Playing by its own rules every step of the way, Being John Malkovich is clearly the sort of movie that needs to be made more often.
November 06, 2002
It's clever, witty, dark and, most importantly, unwaveringly bizarre.
December 18, 2010
Kids won't get this sex-driven, head-trip comedy.
February 07, 2014
There's something fantastically proto-Internet about this romantic-dramedy of flop-sweat desperation, role-playing, simulation and eccentric, niche-culture behaviour-a world of virtual-reality escapes, alter egos, sexual fetishes and rabbit-hole trips.
April 03, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] Corollaries of desire break through dead-end walls only to be reinvented on the other side in a supernatural spectrum of practical existence. Go figure.
February 08, 2008
This outrageous comic fantasy may not sustain its brilliance throughout its 112 minutes, but it keeps cooking for so much of that time that I don't have many complaints.
June 18, 2012
An incredibly rich and entertaining (not to say, laudably malevolent) film that far transcends its already way-out title premise ...
June 18, 2002
It's tremendously entertaining, and probably worthy of repeat viewings.
April 27, 2007
By the time the tunnel worthy of the likes of Gulliver and Alice becomes a freeway clogged with bit players, a big chill has descended on all the characters.
June 17, 2008
Devilishly inventive and so far out there it's almost off the scale.
July 21, 2005
It is hard to mix moods -- the film is manic, subtle, comic and vaguely sad -- but [Jonze] does it masterfully.