You too can crawl into the head of someone else.

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2001)

Thank you Charlie Kaufman for writing and Spike Jonze for directing this quirky fantasy. A disgruntled puppeteer(John Cusack)finds a real job as a file clerk on the "7 1/2" floor of an office building. Behind a file cabinet he discovers a secret passage that is a portal to the brain of movie star John Malkovich. Cusack confides in a bawdy co-worker (Catherine Keener), who he has a crush on. They both decide to go into a small business of selling trips into the head of Malkovich.
The humor is witty and dark. The story line is so obtuse it is near hypnotic. The viewer is compelled to watch again a little bit closer.
Cusack is wonderful and proving to be a very versatile actor. Cameron Diaz plays Cusack's wife, who contemplates a sex change and falls in love with Keener. Also in this fast paced fantasy are: Mary Kay Place, Orson Bean, Charlie Sheen and guess who...John Malkovich.