Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Movie · R · 124 min · ★ 7.5 · 68% critics
A theater director becomes consumed by an ambitious new project: building a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse for a play. As the production grows, everyday relationships and anxieties start to blur with the work, pushing the director into an increasingly strange, introspective search for meaning and connection.
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Details
- Years
- 2008
- Release date
- 2008-10-24
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Critic score
- 68/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (1,602 votes)
- Box office
- $4,500,000
- Budget
- $20,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like surreal, emotionally heavy stories that reward rewatching and personal interpretation, like Being John Malkovich or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Not for you if you want a simple, uplifting, linear plot.
Pros: ambitious, thought-provoking story; dark humor and tension; invites personal interpretation | Cons: slow and heavy mood; confusing, abstract structure; can feel overstuffed
Themes
- depression
- new york city
- nihilism
- philosophy
- surreal
- surrealism
- man woman relationship
- theater director
- romance
- writer
- divorce
- magic realism
- +5 more
Cast & crew
Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Caden Cotard
Samantha Morton
as Hazel
Michelle Williams
as Claire Keen
Catherine Keener
as Adele Lack
Emily Watson
as Tammy
Dianne Wiest
as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Jennifer Jason Leigh
as Maria
Hope Davis
as Madeleine Gravis
Tom Noonan
as Sammy Barnathan
Sadie Goldstein
as Olive (4 years old)
Directed by Charlie Kaufman