Synecdoche, New York
(2009)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/SYNECDOCHE

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/SYNECDOCHE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
1435948904 28996, 9781435948907, 043396289963
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Director of photography, Frederick Elmes ; editor, Robert Frazen ; music, Jon Brion

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

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Michelle Williams, Samantha Morton, Dianne Wiest

MPAA rating: R; for language and some sexual content/nudity

DVD, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround

Closed-captioned

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