Synecdoche New York

    • Director: Charlie Kaufman
    • Executive producers: Ray Angelic, William Horberg and Bruce Toll
    • Producers: Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kauffman and Sidney Kimmel
    • Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman
    • Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
    • Release date: October 24, 2008 (limited)
    • MPAA rating: R
    • Run time: 124 minutes
    • Filmed in the Bronx
  • Synecdoche, New York is a film written by Charlie Kaufman about a theater director who builds a model of New York City, in a warehouse, to prove himself. During an optometry exam, a psychological problem is revealed. The film follows his struggle through his illness, the project and his relationships, as they gradually merge over several decades.FirstShowing.net: News Photos From Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York (May 11, 2008)

    The film won a Spirit Award for Best First Feature and the Robert Altman Award.

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  • Film Title

    Synecdoche (si-nek-duh-kee) is a noun defined as "a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part." Kaufman used the word synecdoche in the title as a play on the word Schenectady, a county in New York featured in the movie.Dictionary.com: Synecdoche Film 4: Synecdoche, New York(2007)
  • Quotes

    • "It reliably contains Kaufman's wondrous visual inventions, complicated characters, idiosyncratic conversations and delightful plot designs, but its collective impact will kick the wind out of you."—Jay Fernandez, Los Angeles Times/film: Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche (January 11, 2008)
    • "I don't know what it will be. I think it's gonna be creepy ... It's a movie about the break-up of a relationship."—Charlie Kaufman in March 2004Film 4: Synecdoche, New York(2007)

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