Synecdoche, New York / a Sony Pictures Classics release, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment presents ; a Likely Story / Projective Testing Service / Russia, Inc. production ; executive producers, William Horberg, Bruce Toll, Ray Angelic ; produced by Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Sidney Kimmel ; written and by directed by Charlie Kaufman.
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the cit...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009], ©2009. |
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| Genre: | Comedy films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Feature films. Fiction films. DVD-Video discs. |
| Summary: | Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter Olive is growing up under questionable guidance. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. His daughter Ariel is mentally handicapped. He steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2008. Special features: In and around Synecdoche, New York ; The story of Caden Cotard : in conversation with Philip Seymour Hoffman ; Infectious diseases in cattle : bloggers' roundtable ; Screen animations ; NFTS/Script factory masterclass with Charlie Kaufman. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Frederick Elmes ; editor, Robert Frazen ; music by Jon Brion. |
| ISBN: | 1435948904 9781435948907 |
| Participant or Performer: | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, Dianne Wiest, Emily Watson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan. |
| Language: | English dialogue; closed-captioned. |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |