Hollywood creativity at its best!

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 1999)

What a clever and original film! It takes an outlandish premise (that somewhere in NYC there's a portal to John Malkovich's brain) and somehow I believed it. This was done through inspired casting, great direction, a fine musical score, and a wonderful and inventive screenplay by Charlie Kaufman.
All the lead performances were excellent. I have to single out Cameron Diaz's performance as exceptional as I really could not believe that was her under that gruesome fright wig!
P.S. What I noticed later is that this film tips its hat to one of my favorite movies, Kieslowski's "The Double Life of Veronique" with its puppeteering subplot and its premise of a linked sense of human identity.