Synecdoche, New York (2008)

R10/24/2008Drama2h 4m

Overview

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Caden Cotard

  2. Cast 1

    Samantha Morton

    Hazel

  3. Cast 1

    Jennifer Jason Leigh

    Maria

  4. Cast 1

    Michelle Williams

    Claire Keen

  5. Cast 1

    Catherine Keener

    Adele Lack

  6. Cast 1

    Emily Watson

    Tammy

  7. Cast 1

    Tom Noonan

    Sammy Barnathan

  8. Cast 1

    Sadie Goldstein

    Olive (4 years old)

  9. Cast 1

    Hope Davis

    Madeleine Gravis

This truly is a film about everything, and everyone. It is a film about conscious existence and subconscious being, a film about love, a film about death, and the art and emotion expanding in between the longing sonder and emptiness. Synecdoche, New York is sonder as meta-cinematic expression. Life for everyone in their individualistic existence is simply their own syncretic vision of fleeting hope hurling towards inevitable death, and that’s perfectly ok, it’s just how things are. We all live in our own fiction unbeknownst to other’s fictions, so what truly matters is the genuine emotion we i...