Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Caden Cotard
Robin Weigert
as Adult Olive
Jennifer Jason Leigh
as Maria
Michelle Williams
as Claire Keen

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Genres & Description

Action Comedy Drama Romance

7.5 / 10

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mock-up of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress ...

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Comments on this trailer
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REALMMA

About to watch this right now - @Friday, November 30, 2018 7:19 PM

Steve Peterson

Streaming it now. If it's 1/2 as good as Adaption and Being John Malkovich I'll be happy with it. - @Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:22 AM

Azku Shang

One of the greatest films ever made, but never loved by the mayor public or critics, because is hermetic in it's meanings, but it cuts very close through all human souls, our essence in this world, this modern society. - @Sunday, October 14, 2018 1:00 AM

Dustin Travis

"Die." - @Saturday, October 13, 2018 3:12 AM

Lee Davis

The greatest film of all time. - @Thursday, October 4, 2018 9:15 PM

Jake Durazo

This sucks so much for how good the movie is - @Monday, October 1, 2018 10:37 PM

LeonAmarantos

Synecdoche from Greek Συνεκδοχή - @Sunday, September 23, 2018 6:25 AM

enigma mist

I struggle with the meaning of existence every day, I think I need to watch this. - @Saturday, September 15, 2018 4:40 PM

Luke Kelly's Ghost

Am I the only one who thought Philip Seymour Hoffman was jack black ?xD - @Tuesday, July 31, 2018 4:21 AM

Miguel Aranda

Poves das asco - @Thursday, May 24, 2018 3:14 AM

Emil Bundsgaard

This movie made me cry so much.. - @Thursday, April 12, 2018 6:20 PM

Diego Hogar

Please, someone who can tell me what he says in the first words of the trailer when Caden is shaving, and when he goes walking down the hospital corridor behind the female blonde doctor ? Please - @Sunday, April 8, 2018 2:46 AM

LukeDoesMusicThings

what a bad fucking trailer - @Friday, March 9, 2018 8:08 AM

SDRW

Best film ever. - @Friday, February 16, 2018 12:19 AM

Stephen Todd

I just watched this movie and it was completely boring. - @Thursday, December 7, 2017 3:19 PM

张祉洲

it's been 17 years. - @Wednesday, November 22, 2017 2:52 AM

BandFpictures

drama, tragedy, surrealism, multiple love stories, theater, deep talk, action, ... this movie has it all. it might me sad but at the same time you can appreciate a very dark and strange humor. Hoffman's best one i would say - @Friday, November 10, 2017 4:03 PM

Bret Harley

Is the funeral scene essentially the entire thesis of the film? - @Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:49 PM

Hastin Nuraini

Hello all introduce my name is Hastin Nuraini Jalan Lilin Mas 6 Dadaprejo Junrejo Batu East Java - Indonesia Tel: 62-81334887683 I love to write and have a series of short stories I want to sell a movie script for Hollywood And one day want to be a jury at the film festival greetings from Indonesia - @Friday, October 27, 2017 12:35 AM

takuma jin

````Attention```` ` If you thinking this is similar to The Machinist ! Please do not watch this i,m beging you .2 hour of you live that you never ever get it back the whole meaning of this Movie is one word DIE ... :Dhahahaha - @Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:30 PM

Apoorv Ambardar

God, I feel like I want to watch this movie so bad. - @Thursday, August 3, 2017 5:41 PM

Jubayer Ahmed

Underrated movie!! - @Tuesday, August 1, 2017 9:17 AM

Eddie Hjalmarsson

boring pretensious shit. it tried way too hard to be kafkaesque and failed miserably. - @Tuesday, June 20, 2017 10:38 PM

NONI: THE NERD

some movies are like art. and the artist sometimes present glittery bullshit.and you know what audience do, they try to find meaning it. I know that movie is about sadness,death, depression etc but its not a fucking masterpiece. people in the comment section are like omg this omg that. this shit is overrated. - @Friday, April 28, 2017 7:20 PM

James

it reminds me a little of waiting for godot - @Thursday, April 13, 2017 7:47 PM

CJ de Niño

This movie is alive. I sat there while the ending credits rolled feeling as if my life just ended I wanted to see some positivity in everything that happened I wanted to justify the guys suffering but it's impossible I laughed at some parts and I thought some of it was romantic but the ending just nailed the coffin shut, this movies tainted in a way. I don't know whether to watch it again or just forget I ever saw it. - @Monday, April 3, 2017 12:39 AM

Maxine Wei

one of my favourite movie - @Sunday, April 2, 2017 2:01 PM

A Lonely Weeaboo

I'm glad the movie finally found it's audience - @Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:50 AM

Rodrigo Oliveira

Who cames because of Minecraft give me a Like! - @Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:45 PM

Felix ten Haaf

I love this movie. I'm drunk and melancholic on a transcendent level. No movie makes me feel like this, it's so damn beautiful. I wish I could hold the feeling I have after watching this movie forever. It has truly changed my life. - @Saturday, February 18, 2017 4:56 AM

danel perez

ta chila - @Saturday, January 21, 2017 9:22 AM

CANNIBoy

This film is meta as fuck - @Wednesday, January 18, 2017 10:16 AM

Alexander Davies Castle

The best movie ever made? Is there anything at it's level? - @Friday, January 6, 2017 11:39 PM

Netsky Nety

this movie gave me fucking cancer in the head, wtf is this shit? - @Tuesday, December 27, 2016 10:34 PM

Accepted Criticism

After watching this movie and reflecting on my own life, I weeped for 30 minutes straight. - @Sunday, December 11, 2016 12:07 PM

Simon Robeyns

wow, i waited like a year to watch this again and i thought i wouldn't like it quite as much as the first time but wow, i'm in tears i'm never in tears this movie reflects me, it's the most depressing part of it all - @Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:50 PM

IateAllTheBlueberries

Can someone please just give Kaufman the highest price there is in the writing world? I´ve never seen movies like the ones he writes and produces. - @Monday, November 7, 2016 8:50 PM

attckonutube

I watch this movie and I feel like someone out there actually understands me. - @Tuesday, October 18, 2016 1:41 AM

Jeffrey Du Bois

Cinefix brought me here, their description of this movie and this trailer bring me to believe that this movie must be watched. So I will. - @Thursday, October 13, 2016 4:18 PM

Cambro 64

First you must realize that there is no play, its all in his head. He is externalizing his human angst over his mortality and lack of purpose/meaning in life. At least, I think. Ha! - @Tuesday, October 11, 2016 3:51 PM

The Movie Crook

One of my favorite movies ever!!! - @Friday, September 30, 2016 9:28 AM

FritzIdler

Will have to try to watch this again. I bailed after about 20 minutes. Because everyone starts off depressed, then goes down from there. Everyone is so low energy, talks quiet, and mumbles. Not to mention, I don't find comparing life to a play, new, or profound. But it is Charlie Kaufman. Adaptation blew me away. So would like to try this again. - @Friday, September 30, 2016 7:40 AM

Jon Wade

Good, but I didn't fap once whilst I was watching it. - @Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:59 AM

Omogna Ekollon

Who else came here because of Marydoodles? :3 - @Tuesday, August 16, 2016 5:56 PM

Joey Fersini

This movie is strangely emotional and bizarre. I want to recommend it to everyone I know! Brilliant. - @Monday, August 15, 2016 7:17 AM

Handy Joli

how can Mr.Hoffman didn't get Oscar for this AMAZING performance???? - @Tuesday, July 26, 2016 6:51 AM

Agnese Purvinska

I just realized this is my favorite move of all time, but I never re-watched it. - @Thursday, July 7, 2016 3:19 AM

DatUhu

Are there actually people who can watch this movie as a comedy? - @Friday, June 10, 2016 10:05 PM

Greg Fox

Interesting, bizarre and dark. It makes Magnolia seem fun. Definitely some funny lines though. Gotta love the tiny paintings - @Monday, May 30, 2016 2:34 AM

BecauseOf Anxiety

R.I.P. Phillip 😔 he was from my city one of my favorite actors - @Friday, May 13, 2016 9:36 PM