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Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, a comedy drama, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard, a frustrated theatre director so bound up in his own work and failings he almost doesn't notice his wife Adele leaving him. When an unexpected grant of $500,000 allows him to realise his dream; he rents a cavernous warehouse and sets about rehearsing a play based on his life and the world around him, with sets modelled on New York and a script comprising of gnomic post-it notes. But will the play ever reach its first night? Kaufman's film is an almost Bergmanesque meditation on life and death (subtle clues show time passing Cotard faster than real time) which, as with his scripts for Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, refuses to kowtow to convention but by its very subversion, provides a fascinating, challenging viewing experience.Product Identifiers
ProducerAnthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Kimmel, Bruce Toll, William Horberg
EAN0043396289963
eBay Product ID (ePID)10053525702
Product Key Features
ActorPhilip Seymour Hoffman, Josh Pais, Catherine Keener, Tom Noonan, Daniel London
Film/TV TitleSynecdoche, New York
DirectorFred Elmes, Adam Stockhausen, Charlie Kaufman
LanguageEnglish
Run Time124 Min
Release Year2008
FormatDVD
FeaturesCaptioned, Widescreen
GenreDrama, Comedy
StudioSony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures
Additional Product Features
Unit Quantity1
ComposerJon Brion
ScreenwriterCharlie Kaufman
SoundDolby Digital 5.1
Original LanguageEn
EditorRobert Frazen
Production CompanySidney Kimmel Entertainment, Russia, Inc., Projective Testing Service, Likely Story