Movie	Adaptation
Guest Reviewer	Michelle
Nutshell	Screenwriter adapts The Orchid Thief with the help of his brother. Along the way, life unfolds.
Good Things	The most amazing script maybe ever. Meryl Streep. Chris Cooper. A screenwriter's wet dream. There need be no others.
Bad Things	Chris Cooper's teeth. All the self-deprecation.
Features	It's a movie about FLOWERS! Nic Cage as twins. Robert McKee and the Story Seminar. Way too many good lines. Mom. "Nasty smell inside van," she writes. Quest for the ghost orchid. Elevator in the Conde-Nast building. Actual cameos by John Cusack and Catherine Keener.
Uncomfortable Moments	The obligatory car chase scene. When the hack writer's script sells.
Notable	A montage of the history of time. "Don't say pitch." Hearing Meryl Streep say Fuck. Watching Meryl Streep snort drugs. Needs to be seen more than once to catch everything. Watch this with a screenwriter, you can just see their mind clicking the moments into place.
Best Part	Layer upon layer detailing the screenwriter's journey, that at its core is a story about love, AND is still an adaptation of The Orchid Thief!
Best Line	"You are what you love, not what loves you."
Crowns	5 out of 5