Inexplicably and unforgivably buried theatrically by Pathe, this is Charlie Kaufman’s follow-up screenplay to Being John Malkovich. Tim Robbins is the uptight scientist who falls for Patricia Arquette’s alarmingly hirsute loner; Rhys Ifans is the man brought up as an ape in the wilderness. Their worlds collide with, pretty much as you’d expect, strange and hilarious results?but in between the weirdness, Kaufman raises salient points about conformity and the self.
DVD EXTRAS: Commentary by director Michel Gondry, Making Of…, trailers.
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