366 Weird Movies

DIRECTED BY:  Spike Jonze
FEATURING: Max Records, voices of James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O’Hara
PLOT: A troubled, rambunctious boy travels to a land where wild beasts anoint him

their king, but discovers that socialization is a struggle even in his imagination.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  Jonze slips a couple of odd visions into this ersatz [...]

DIRECTED BY: Spike Jonze
FEATURING: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Columbus
PLOT:  Adaptation tells two stories: in one, a “New Yorker” journalist (Meryl

Streep) becomes obsessed with the subject of her nonfiction book, a trashy but passionate collector of orchids (Chris Cooper); in the other, a depressed screenwriter (Nicolas Cage) struggles to adapt her book “The Orchid Thief” into [...]