Synecdoche, New York
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.
- 7.5
- 2008
- Released
- 2h 4m
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Caden Cotard
Samantha Morton
Hazel
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Maria
Michelle Williams
Claire Keen
Catherine Keener
Adele Lack
Emily Watson
Tammy
Tom Noonan
Sammy Barnathan
Sadie Goldstein
Olive (4 years old)
Hope Davis
Madeleine Gravis
Dianne Wiest
Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Stanley Krajewski
Actor as Caden
Kristen Bush
Actress Playing Claire
Alice Drummond
Actress Playing Frances
Amy Wright
Burning House Realtor
Deirdre O'Connell
Ellen's Mother
Elizabeth Marvel
Warehouse Realtor
Charles Techman
Like Clockwork Patient
Tom Greer
Medic
Josh Pais
Ophthalmologist
Lynn Cohen
Caden's Mother
Jerry Adler
Caden's Father
Daisy Tahan
Ariel
Frank Girardeau
Plumber
Peter Friedman
Emergency Room Doctor
Daniel London
Tom
Robert Seay
David
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Davis
Joe Lisi
Maurice
Michael Medeiros
Eric
Christopher Evan Welch
Pastor
William Ryall
Jimmy
Rosemary Murphy
Frances
John Rothman
Dentist
Paul Sparks
Derek
Tim Guinee
Needleman Actor
Robin Weigert
Adult Olive
Michael Higgins
Actor Playing Man with Nose Bleed
Barbara Haas
Warehouse ActressGreg McFadden
Actor Playing Needleman Actor
Alvin Epstein
Man with Nose Bleed
Gerald Emerick
Man in Line
Chris McGinn
Lady at Caden's Mom's
Dan Ziskie
Leg Tremor Doctor
Portia
Therapy Patient Actress
Nicholas Wyman
Soap Actor Doctor
Amy Spanger
Soap Actress NurseTimothy Doyle
MichaelCliff Carpenter
Old ManRaymond Angelic Sr.
German Doctor
Erica Fae
German Woman
Mark Lotito
MinisterLaura Odeh
Toystore Clerk
Frank Wood
Evaluative Services DoctorAmanda R. Phillips
Emergency Room NurseKat Peters
Ellen (10 years old)
Released
en
$20,000,000.00
$4,383,538.00
- #depression
- #new york city
- #nihilism
- #philosophy
- #surreal
- #surrealism
- #man woman relationship
- #theater director
- #romance
- #writer
- #divorce
- #magic realism
- #existentialism
- #meaningless existence
- #anxious
- #ambivalent
- #audacious
Reviews
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 hop