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SYNECDOCHE,NEW YORK

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WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    Oscar-winning writer Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, "one of the best films of the year" (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times), follows the life of regional theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as he struggles with romantic relationships (Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams and Catherine Keener), as well as the problems of aging, and a mysteriously degenerative medical condition. He develops all this into a monumental theater piece. Building a full-scale replica of New York City inside an impossibly large warehouse and populating it with thousands of actors, Cotard spends the remainder of his life creating a piece so personal and epic in scope, that the line between reality and art collide, and the universe that he has created swallows up everything within it.

STARRING:

Philip Seymour Hoffman: Caden Cotard
Samantha Morton: Hazel
Michelle Williams: Claire Keen
Catherine Keener: Adele Lack
Emily Watson: Tammy
Dianne Wiest: Ellen Bascomb/Millicent Weems
Jennifer Jason Leigh: Maria
Hope Davis: Madeleine Gravis
Tom Noonan: Sammy Barnathan

SCREENWRITER: Charlie Kaufman

DIRECTOR: Charlie Kaufman

RUNNING TIME: 124 minutes

STUDIO: Sony

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: D +

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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

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• The title of this film is a play on words, the film takes place in Schenectady, New York (a real place), while the movie is spelled Synecdoche which is a word which is defined by Webster's dictionary as "a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships."
• Philip Seymour Hoffman's character is named Caden Cotard, the last name Cotard comes from the actual medical disorder known as a Cotard Delusion or Cotard Syndrome. This is a rare condition in which a person believes they are dead or do not exist. Sometimes it can also manifest itself in the person believing that they have lost their internal organs or blood.

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