What 1999 comedy features a portal into the mind of the actor John Malkovich?

The 1999 comedy featuring a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich is Being John Malkovich.

Directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, the film follows Craig Schwartz, a struggling puppeteer played by John Cusack. While working in an unusually low-ceilinged office, Craig discovers a hidden passage that transports anyone who enters directly into the mind of a fictionalized John Malkovich.

The portal provides a fifteen-minute experience before ejecting visitors beside the New Jersey Turnpike. Craig and his colleague Maxine Lund, played by Catherine Keener, begin charging customers for access, turning an absurd supernatural discovery into a business. The story then explores identity, desire, control, celebrity, and the unsettling boundary between observing someone and possessing their life.

The title is literal within the film: visitors do not merely meet Malkovich or enter a fictional world; they experience reality through him. It is often grouped with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind because both are inventive, emotionally complex films, but only Being John Malkovich centers on a physical portal into an actor’s mind. Cameron Diaz also appears as Lotte Schwartz.