Synecdoche, New York

Life is looking pretty bleak for theater director Caden Cotard . His wife and daughter have left him, his therapist is more interested in plugging her new book than helping him with his problems, and a strange disease is causing his body to shut down. Caden leaves his home in Schenectady, New York, and heads to New York City, where he gathers a cast of actors and tells them to live their lives within the constructs of a mock-up of the city.

Cast :

• Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Caden Cotard

• Samantha Morton
• Hazal

• Michelle Williams
• Claire Keen

• Catherine Keener
• Adele Lack

• Emily Watson
• Tammy

• Dianne Wiest
• Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems

• Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Maria

• Hope Davis
• Madeleine Gravis

• Tom Noonan
• Sammy Barnathan

• Sadie Goldstein
• Olive (age 4)

• Robin Weigert
• Olive (adult)