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24/10/2008 Drama 2h 4m
75
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The end is built into the beginning.

Overview

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.

  1. Charlie Kaufman

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Caden Cotard

  2. Samantha Morton

    Hazel

  3. Michelle Williams

    Claire Keen

  4. Catherine Keener

    Adele Lack

  5. Emily Watson

    Tammy

  6. Dianne Wiest

    Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems

  7. Jennifer Jason Leigh

    Maria

  8. Hope Davis

    Madeleine Gravis

  9. Tom Noonan

    Sammy Barnathan

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by onthesilverglobe
Written by onthesilverglobe on 2022-10-20
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 emotio...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$20,000,000.00

Revenue
$4,383,538.00

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