An out-of-work puppeteer (John Cusack) takes a job at a corporation. One day he discovers a small door hidden behind a file cabinet in his office. He crawls inside and finds that it is really a portal that allows him to become actor John Malkovich (played by John Malkovich!) for 15-minute intervals, after which he wakes up in a ditch on the side of a highway. Cusack tells a co-worker (Catherine Keener), and together they hatch a money-making scheme wherein poor slobs can enter John Malkovich for a price—a bizarre vacation, of sorts. BRADLEY STEINBACHER