Synecdoche, New York (2008)
The end is built into the beginning.
Director: Charlie Kaufman · Writer: Charlie Kaufman
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.
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Director
Charlie Kaufman
Cast
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 
Sadie Goldstein
Olive (4 years old) 
Robin Weigert
Adult Olive 
Deirdre O'Connell
Ellen's Mother User Reviews (1)
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 individually find and connect with through it all. Emotion is the only reality humanity is capable of grasping, and we must accept and learn to appreciate and live with that fact before it’s too late and our life has passed us by. Much alike an aspect of the film, where we constantly expe…
