Movie: Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Director: Spike Jonze
- Release Date: 12 October 2000 (Hong Kong)
- Run Time: 112 min | Canada:113 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance
- MPAA: Rated R for language and sexuality.
Tagline: Ever wanted to be someone else? Now you can.
Trivia: In the first draft of the script, Lester and his friends weren’t using Malkovich’s portal as a means for extending their lives, but in a plot to take over the world in the name of Satan. Satan was the mysterious ‘Flemmer’ that the Merton-Flemmer building was half named after.
Goofs: Continuity: When Craig first discovers the portal, the hands of the clock on the wall (in the deep storage room) are fixed at 2:23 for several minutes.
“Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She’s bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever JM is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine makes it commercial, selling trips for $200; also, she’s more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside JM. JM finds out what’s going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer. Meanwhile, Lotte discovers others interested in the portal. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>”
