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Synecdoche, New York

2008 • 2h 4m •
Drama
MOVIEVIBE Rating
★ 7.5/10
1,669 reviews
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Synecdoche, New York

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.

"The end is built into the beginning."

Top Billed Cast

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Caden Cotard
Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton
Hazel
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams
Claire Keen
Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener
Adele Lack
Emily Watson
Emily Watson
Tammy
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest
Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Maria
Hope Davis
Hope Davis
Madeleine Gravis

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O onthesilverglobe Verified TMDB Critic
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...