Spike Jonze celluloid headscrew starring Nic Cage, Meryl Streep and Tilda Swinton.

Before jumping into bed with Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, Gyllenhaal appeared in this similarly-themed literary mind-bender from Charlie Kaufman. Cage plays twins, one of whom decides to adapt The Orchid Thief into a screenplay, but realises there’s no narrative, rendering the task impossible...

Quotability: “It’s like a brain factory in here.”