DVD
Synecdoche, New York
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
Closed-captioned.
Performers
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, Dianne Wiest, Emily Watson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan.
Publication Information
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for language and some sexual content/nudity.
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.