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  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Opened October 24, 2008 | Runtime:2 hr. 3 min.
  • R
    language and some sexual content/nudity
  • Theater director Caden Cotard (Hoffman) 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 (Keener) has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, Read More
  • Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson
  • Director: Charlie Kaufman
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign

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  • Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard and Samantha Morton as Hazel in "Synecdoche, New York."
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard in "Synecdoche, New York."
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard and Samantha Morton as Hazel in "Synecdoche, New York."
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard in "Synecdoche, New York."
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Synecdoche, New York Recent Fan Reviews

  • Must Go!

    Brilliant!

    by ZMan_Barzell

    I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who got it! Hilarious if you have a morbid sense of humor...yet deeply moving and thought provoking

    synecdoche - a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special

  • Oh No!

    Not for me

    by sandrena

    We went to see this movie based on critic reviews (who have led me astray before) and the cast. Maybe I'm just too low-brow or not introspective enough to understand this movie, but to me it was a waste of money and time. On the way home we decided that the main philosophy of the movie was that life sucks and then you die. Another reviewer used that same line and they were right.

  • Must Go!

    Confessions of Being an Adaptaion of a Dangerous Spotless Mind

    by blueswanstudios

    I found it quite amazing on many levels. (acting, visuals, dialog, concepts...) That's not to say that I understand it. It's certainly confusing but really that's part of the fun of it. It definitely stuck in my head and I'm probably going to go back to see it again to try to "get" more of it.
    Almost a cinematic Finnegan's Wake.

    If you're not in the mood for something different or challenging then this is probably not the movie for you. (but you should go anyhow)

    ~abe froehman

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  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    I think you have to see Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York twice. I watched...

  • 100
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    To say that Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York is one of the best films of...

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    I can't pretend to know fully what Charlie Kaufman is up to in Synecdoche, New...

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Ray Bennett

    Will mesmerize some and mystify others, while many will be bored silly. It's...

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