Synecdoche, New York
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Charlie Kaufman
Cliff Carpenter
Frank Wood
Tim Metzger
Deirdre O'connell
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. Worried about the transience of his life, he leaves his home behind. He gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in New York City, hoping to create a work of brutal honesty. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a growing mockup of the city outside. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. His lingering attachments to both Adele and Hazel are causing him to helplessly drive his new marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy and Tammy, the actors hired to play Caden and Hazel, are making it difficult for the real Caden to revive his relationship with the real Hazel. The textured tangle of real and theatrical relationships blurs the line between the world of the play and that of Caden's own deteriorating reality. The years rapidly fold into each other, and Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.
Director
Charlie Kaufman
Cast
Cliff Carpenter
Frank Wood
Tim Metzger
Deirdre O'connell
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Michelle Williams
Robin Weigert
Dan Ziskie
Lynn Cohen
Elizabeth Marvel
Frank Girardeau
Paul Sparks
Jennifer Jason Leigh
William Ryall
Deanna Storey
Stanley Krajewski
Laura Odeh
Daisy Tahan
Tom Noonan
Alvin Epstein
Emily Watson
John Rothman
Catherine Keener
Gerald Emerick
Tim Guinee
Kristen Bush
Rosemary Murphy
Amanda Fulks
Samantha Morton
Barbara Haas
Raymond Angelic
Dianne Wiest
Jerry Adler
Michael Medeiros
Christopher Evan Welch
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Josh Pais
Nick Wyman
Robert Seay
Hope Davis
Sadie Goldstein
Charles Techman
Amy Spanger
Chris Mcginn
Kat Peters
Daniel London
Timothy Doyle
Michael Higgins
Peter Friedman
Mark Lotito
Alice Drummond
Joe Lisi
Amy Wright
Tom Greer
Greg Mcfadden
Crew
Nicole Abellera
Daniel Abramovich
Arlynn Abseck
Jason Acevedo
Derrick Alford
Glenn Allen
Sebastian Almeida
Ben Altarescu
Peter Amante
Christian Amundson
Peter Anders
Robert M Andres
Ray Angelic
Ray Angelic
Paloma Anoveros
Mike Antolino
Arianne Apicelli
Chris Armstrong
Peter Armstrong
Chris Arnold
Ashley Arrison
Nora Ashkar
Joann Atwood
Brad Bachtell
John Bair
Shiva Shankar Bajpai
Jamie Baker
Antony Baldasare
Justin Ball
Renuka Ballal
Sudhir Banekar
Robert Barnett
Guy Barresi
Steve Bartek
Steven Barth
Allison Barton
Maureen Beitler
Julia Berg
Rori Bergman
Andrea Bergstol
Mark Bero
David Berti
Gauri Bhagwat
John Billeci
Mirashyam Blakeslee
Terra Bliss-alvarez
Joanne Bloom
Arthur Blum
John Bobick
Emily Boettcher
Geoffrey Booth
Anna Bosco
Cheryl Boyarsky
Steve Boyle
Julian Bratolyubov
Mike Braun
Anthony Bregman
Jon Brion
Jon Brion
Jon Brion
Robert Brown
Stephen Brown
Philip Buccellato
Jamie Buckner
Lia Burkeman
Alexander Burnham
Edward Bursch
Matthew Callagy
Michael D Canale
Donald M Canfield
Luke Cantarella
Jorge Carangui
Anne Carson
Eric Caudieux
Nicholas Cerniglia
Kam Chan
Vasistha Chawda
Parker Chehak
Aaron Gerhard Chiesa
Judy Chin
Inhan Cho
Utumporn Chompen
Sujata S Choudhari
Richard Clark
Chris Cloud
Chris Colombo
Matthew Conner
Connie Conrad
H. H. Cooper
Meghan Corea
Martial Corneville
Dylan Correll
Abe Costanza
Marko Costanzo
Peter Costello
Tom Creehan
Sasha Cummins
Mary Cybulski
Cara Czekanski
Ben D'andrea
Jerry Decarlo
Vijay S Deshmukh
James Dewolf
Alex Digerlando
Paul George Divone
Aleksandar Djordjevic
Mark Dolce
Morgan Donaho
Kat Donahue
Devin Donegan
Naomi Donne
Jessica Donnelly
Jay Duerr
Steven Duke
David Dunlap
Garrett Eaton
John Edmundson
Edward James Egan
Kevin Egan
Johnathan Ellis
Fred Elmes
Jeffrey A. Eplett
John Farina
Natalie Farrey
Kimberly Feinman
Jim Ferris
David Fidel
Chris Fielder
Laura Fine
Glenn Fjotland
Charlotte Fleck
Kevin Flynn
Chris Forester-smith
David Formentin
Scott Frankel
Jamie Franklin
Robert Frazen
Jason Freese
Mark Friedberg
Richard Friedlander
Samuel Friedman
Nir Gaon
Joe Gawler
Scott Gaynos
Eugene Gearty
Eugene Gearty
Abbot Genser
Dror Gescheit
Mohmed Ghouse
James Giblin
Jeffrey Lee Gibson
Mary C Gierczak
Elisabeth Giglio
Alison Gilham
Jeanne L Gilliland
Jim Gilstrap
David Ginsberg
Scott Glascock
Sadie Goldstein
Erik Gonzalez
Mark Goodermote
Jonathan Graham
Jeremiah Grant
Dennis Green
Bonnie Greenberg
Roman Greller
George Grenier
Nate Grubb
Carlos Guerra
Roopesh Gujar
Mark Hagerman
John Halligan
Sandy Hamilton
Barbara Harris
Mark Harrison
Shaune Harrison
Ruth Hernandez
Carl Hettling
Don Hewitt
Don J Hewitt
Nicholas Hill
Arlo Hoffman
Brian Hogan
Sean Hogan
Eloisa Honrada
William Horberg
John House
Izchel C Huerta
Lee Hughes
Jules Hulburd
Paul Huntly
Tony Ingrassellino
Ahmad Ismail
Melissa L Jackson
Jacob Jaffke
Kim Jennings
Deborah Jensen
Drew Jiritano
Lukasz Jogalla
Robert L Johnson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the 2008 award for Best Production Design by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).
Winner of two 2008 Spirit Awards including the Robert Altman Award and Best First Feature; also nominated for Best Screenplay by Film Independent (FIND).
Limited Release in United States October 24, 2008
Released in United States Fall October 24, 2008
Released in United States on Video March 10, 2009
Released in United States October 2008
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Gala Presentation) October 16-29, 2008.
Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (Closing Night Film/Spotlight) October 15-19, 2008.
Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 15-30, 2008.
Feature directorial debut for Charlie Kaufman.
Limited Release in United States October 24, 2008 (NY, LA)
Released in United States Fall October 24, 2008
Released in United States on Video March 10, 2009
Released in United States October 2008 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Gala Presentation) October 16-29, 2008.)
Released in United States October 2008 (Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival (Closing Night Film/Spotlight) October 15-19, 2008.)
Released in United States October 2008 (Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 15-30, 2008.)
