Being John Malkovich
By: Gramercy Pictures presents a Propaganda Films/Single Cell Picture production ; directed by Spike Jonze ; written by Charlie Kaufman ; produced by Michael Stipe and Sandy Stern, Steve Golin, Vincent Landay
Contributors: Cusack, John, 1966- actor; Diaz, Cameron, actor; Keener, Catherine, actor; Bean, Orson, actor; Place, Mary Kay, actor; Acord, Lance, cinematographer; Zumbrunnen, Eric, film editor; Burwell, Carter, composer; Malkovich, John, actor; Gramercy Pictures; Propaganda Films (Firm); Single Cell Pictures; Universal Pictures (Firm); Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: DVD ed.
Series: Criterion collection -- 611; Criterion collection -- 611.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9781604655872
Subjects: Drama; Puppeteers; Telepathy
Description: An out-of-work puppeteer takes a filing clerk job on the cramped seventh floor of an office building where he discovers a hidden tunnel allowing him to enter the mind and life of actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes before being ejected onto the New Jersey Turnpike.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.

"Director-approved two-DVD special edition ..."--Container.

Special features: [disc 1] New selected-scene audio commentary featuring Michel Gondry; [disc 2] new behind-the-scenes documentary by filmmaker Lance Bangs; conversation between John Malkovich and humorist John Hodgman; director Spike Jonze discusses Being John Malkovich via production photos; two films: "7 1/2 Floor Orientation" and "Dance of despair and disillusionment"; an intimate portrait of the art of puppeteering, a documentary by Bangs; trailer; tv spots; booklet featuring a conversation between Jonze and Perkus Tooth.

Director of photography, Lance Acord; editor, Eric Zumbrunnen; music, Carter Burwell.

John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, Mary Kay Place, John Malkovich.

Rating: R; for language and sexuality.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

English dialogue; closed captioned.
Table of contents: title: [Disc 1]: [Feature film]; title: [Disc 2] Special features.