Being John Malkovich
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An unemployed Manhattan puppeteer takes an office job on floor 7½ of a Manhattan office building and discovers a hidden portal in the wall that shoots anyone who crawls through it directly into the mind of Hollywood actor John Malkovich for fifteen minutes before dropping them alongside the New Jersey Turnpike. Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending, Oscar-nominated surrealist comedy milestone starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener.
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