Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Director Spike Jonze creates a world so fantastic that it honors a child’s imagination yet so realistic that Max, King of the Wild Things, can’t solve life’s complicated emotions even in his make-believe world. Jonze has made a little piece of joy.

d: Spike Jonze | imdb.com | trailer | featurette
What’s your story? | This is our family. | Dirt clod fight

Adaptation. (2002)

Wonderfully strange and funny, the film is about screenwriting and orchid thieves and … Nicolas Cage plays twin brothers — real screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and fictional screenwriter Donald Kaufman. Brian Cox is dead-on as script doctor Robert McKee.

d: Spike Jonze | imdb.com | trailer | Brian Cox | Robert McKee