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Being John Malkovich

1999 · Comedy · Spike Jonze · 1h 48m

A puppeteer takes a filing job on a half-height office floor and finds a tunnel that drops him into John Malkovich's head for fifteen minutes. Funnier and stranger the further it goes.

  • Strongly fantastic
  • Clearly complicated

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