Being John Malkovich . Tucson Weekly . 11-15-99

Being John Malkovich

DIRECTED BY: Spike Jonze

REVIEWED: 11-15-99

John Cusak stars as Craig Schwartz, a marionettist manqué who takes a job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a very strange office building. There, he meets Maxine, the girl of his dreams (über-actress Catherine Keener) and also finds a tunnel that leads to John Malkovich's consciousness. For Schwartz, this raises all sorts of questions about identity and reality; for Maxine, it seems like a perfect profit-making venture. Thus, they start charging poor schmucks $200 a pop for 15 minutes of being John Malkovich. Alternately funny, weird and really creepy, Being John Malkovich is not only an original and well-executed film, it also includes the strangest three-way sex scene in motion picture history. Also starring John Malkovich as John Malkovich.

--James DiGiovanna

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