Not since David Cronenberg attempted
Naked Lunch has a filmmaker been faced with a knottier problem of book-to-movie adaptation than Charlie Kaufman. Impressed by his screenplay for BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (1999), Sony Pictures hired Kaufman to turn Susan Orlean's non-fiction best-seller
The Orchid Thief into a feature film. The book is a fascinating account of an unusual crime: In 1994, 36-year-old John Laroche was arrested for poaching "ghost orchids" from the Fakahatchee Strand, a state-owned nature preserve deep in the Florida Everglades. But aside from Laroche's less-than-sensational crime, there really isn't much "story" in
The Orchid Thief. I...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins