Synecdoche, New York ─ The Shooting Script

From Charlie Kaufman, perhaps the most distinctive screenwriting voice of our generation, comes a visual and philosphic adventure of epic proportions. Much as he did with his scripts for Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kaufman twists and subverts the form and language of film as he delves into the mind of a man who, obsessed with his own mortality, sets out to construct a massive artistic enterprise that could give some meaning to his life. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, and Tom Noonan, and directed by Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York is an epic story of grand artistic ambitions and creative madness.

Charlie Kaufman is the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich (1999), Human Nature (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Synecdoche, New York marks Kaufman’s film directorial debut.