The puppeteer takes a job working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a Manhattan office building; this idea alone might serve as the comedic basis for an entire film, but Jonze and Kaufman are just getting started. Add a devious co-worker (Catherine Keener), Cusack's dowdy wife (a barely recognisable Cameron Diaz), and a business scheme to capitalise on the thrill of being John Malkovich, and you've got a movie that just gets crazier as it plays by its own outrageous rules. Malkovich himself is the film's pièce de résistance, playing on his own persona with obvious delight and--when he enters his own brain via the portal--appearing with multiple versions of himself in a tour-de-force use of digital trickery. Does it add up to much? Not really. But for 112 liberating minutes, Being John Malkovich is a wild place to visit. --Jeff Shannon

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French German
Dolby Digital 5.1 Stereo
Original Theatrical Trailer
Filmographies
Art Of Puppeteering Featurette
Art Of Background Diving Featurette
John Horatio Malkovich
Dance Despair And Disillusionment
7 And A Half Floor Orientation
Spike Jonze Interview
Photo Album
4 TV Slots
Dutch\English\French\German


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