So here's 2019, and just to make you feel old immediately, Den of Geek brings us 20 movies turning 20 this year, including Being John Malkovich.
1999 was a great year in cinema.
Being John Malkovich
A puppeteer discovers a door behind a filing cabinet of the 7½th floor of a faceless office building that leads into the mind of John Malkovich. Wait, what? The premise for the first feature-length movie from music video director Spike Jonze was pretty out there to say the least. And it only gets more inventive (and weird) as the story unfolds. An existentialist fantasy of mind-blowing scope, nobody had seen anything like it before. Writer Charlie Kaufman came up with the story and used it as his portal from the world of TV into feature films, while John Cusack became involved as puppeteer Craig after asking his agent for “the craziest, most unproduceable script you can find."
Cameron Diaz shed her blonde bombshell image and is almost unrecognizable in the role of Lotte, Craig’s wife, who falls for his co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener) while inside Malkovich’s head. Oh, and of course John Malkovich plays himself and, at one point he enters his own mind through the portal. It’s almost too much for our tiny brains to comprehend, and it blew the minds of critics, audiences and the Academy, with three Oscar nods – for Jonze, Kaufman and Keener. (Source)