Odd story; odd people; great flick!

Rating: 9/10 (27 November 1999)

We finally got to "Being John Malkovich" a couple of weeks after it was released, and am I glad we did. It was extremely creativebrilliant in places.
But what an odd story with some very odd people!
Getting inside the head of JM for 15 minutes (a take-off on Andy Warhol's '15 minutes of fame'?) only to be dumped out of the air by the side of the New Jersey Turnpike?? Who came up with that? Cameron Diaz as a frumpy (!) animal lover; John Cusack as a puppeteer; and John Malkovich making such fun of himself while playing himself?
The best scene was when JM went inside his own brain. What do you think YOU would see?
Plenty of places in this film to laugh out loud. Look for a couple of nominees on Oscar night.
Note: Believe the `R' rating for your kids (we almost took our 14-yr old until I read the reviews; glad we opted not to). Odd sexual situations that you would not enjoy with a kid in tow.