Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Genres: Drama
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan, Sadie Goldstein, Robin Weigert, Deirdre O'Connell, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Josh Pais, Daniel London, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Amy Wright, Paul Sparks, John Rothman, Frank Wood, Elizabeth Marvel, Daisy Tahan, Cliff Carpenter, Amy Spanger, Nick Wyman, Dan Ziskie, Rosemary Murphy, Tim Guinee, Joe Lisi, Alice Drummond, Michael Higgins, Christopher Evan Welch, Peter Friedman
Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American postmodern psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an ailing theater director who works on an increasingly elaborate stage production and whose extreme commitment to realism begins to blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. The film's title is a play on Schenectady, New York, where much of the film is set, and the concept of synecdoche, wherein a part of something represents the whole or vice versa.